This work must be a work of many; and who so proper to assist in it as they, who had before so honourably laboured in it?
In the case of such an event large funds also would be wanted, and who so proper to procure and manage them as these?
A meeting was accordingly called at the house of James Phillips, when these our views were laid open.

When I stated that from the very time of my hopes beginning to rise I had always had those present in my eye as one day to be fellow-labourers, William Dillwyn replied, that from the time they had first heard of the _Prize Essay_, they also had had their eyes upon me, and, from the time they had first seen me, had conceived: a desire of making the same use of me as I had now expressed a wish of making of them, but that matters did not appear ripe at our first interview.

Our proposal, however, was approved, and an assurance was given, that an union should take place as soon as it was judged to be seasonable.

It was resolved also, that one day in the week[A] should be appointed for a meeting at the house of James Phillips, where as many might attend as had leisure, and that I should be there to make a report of my progress, by which we might all judge of the fitness of the time of calling ourselves an united body.
Pleased now with the thought that matters were put into such a train, I returned to my former objects.
[Footnote A: At these weekly meetings I met occasionally Joseph Woods, George Harrison, and John Lloyd, three of the other members, who belonged to the committee of the second class of forerunners and coadjutors as before described.

I had seen all of them before, but I do not recollect the time when I first met them.] It is not necessary to say anything more of the first of these objects, which was that of the further distribution of my book, than that it was continued, and chiefly by the same hands.
With respect to the enlargement of my knowledge, it was promoted likewise.