He replied that his own society had long taken it up as a religious body, and individuals among them were wishing to find me out.

I asked him who.

He answered, James Phillips, a bookseller, in Georgeyard, Lombard-street, and William Dillwyn, of Walthamstow, and others.

Having but little time to spare, I desired him to introduce me to one of them.

In a few minutes he took me to James Phillips, who was then the only one of them in town; by whose conversation I was so much interested and encouraged, that without any further hesitation I offered him the publication of my work.