J. Green, London, to Ozias Humphry, the English Coffee House, Rome
He protests that by lauding the success of
R[omney] (HU/2/47) he did not mean to make the two friends rivals; Romney has not been social and the only time he,
Paine and Carwardine see him is at his house, he keeps himself to himself; he has met [
William Humphry's] fianceé and was bowled over by her beauty; Romney is to order Humphry a lay-man when he orders his own; the
Duke of Dorset is in Paris and Humphry my catch him there; he beseeches Humphry not to return to miniature painting.