Complying with a request by Cowper that he share the poem he wrote to George Romney which he sent to Hayley; saying "Carissimo Pittore / This graceful & charming compliment to yr Talents arrived here last night with a request that if I thought it would please you I should transmit it to yr Hand - Your little Fairy Tom hoped to have had the pleasure of writing you a Spritely Letter this morning as Secretary to our dear Bard of Weston but alas the poor little Fellow is at this moment tormented with pains in the Face that [ren]der Him unable to hold a pen - I will not however detain from you ever for a single post a delightful Tribute to yr Genius from a Poet so dear to us both - excuse this brief scrawl as all my nerves are aching with sympathetic anguish while my poor child is leaning against my Bosom / God bless you / ever yr affectionate / WH."