He went to see
Mr. Dance who is in good spirits, although his memory has been affected since his illness, even so he was able to walk upstairs to show his
brother's pictures, he speaks with affection of Dance's achievements; he relates an unpleasant encounter with a Mr. J.T. [
John Taylor?] in the theatre, "I sat shrinking into myself"; he has realised that
Hazlitt wrote the hostile review of Farington's work, he calls Hazlitt a violent democrat and is free in his other opinions.