I was on the point many times of going to hear Mr.Lowell, who is one of the dissenting clergymen of Bristol, but, as the weather proved very unfavorable, uncommonly so every Sunday I was there, and I was at a great distance from his church, I was disappointed.

I shall endeavor to hear him preach when I go back to Bristol again." This was in reply to many long exhortations in his parents' letters, and especially in his mother's, couched in the extravagant language of the very pious of those days, to seek first the welfare of his "never-dying soul." "I have returned from Bristol to attend the exhibitions and to endeavor to get a picture into Somerset House.

My stay in Bristol was very pleasant, indeed, as well as profitable.

I was there five months and, in May, shall probably go again and stay all summer.

I was getting into good business in the portrait way there, and, if I return, shall be enabled, probably, to support myself as long as I stay in England.
"The attention shown me by Mr.Harman Visger and family, whom I have mentioned in a former letter, I shall never forget.