He was very glad to see me and calls on me every day while I am painting.

He keeps his carriage and horses and is in the first circles here.

I ride out occasionally with him; shall begin his portrait next week." Like a breath of fresh air, in all the heat and dust of these troublous times, comes this request from his gentle mother in a letter of May 8, 1812:-- "Miss C.Dexter requests the favor of you to take a sketch of the face of Mr.Southey and send it her.

He is a favorite writer with her and she has a great desire to see the style of his countenance.

If you can get it, enclose it in a genteel note to her with a brief account of him, his age and character, etc." The next letter of May 25, 1812, is from Morse to his parents.
"I have told you in former letters that my lodgings are at 82 Great Titchfield Street and that my room-mate is Leslie, the young man who is so much talked of in Philadelphia.