"And I am, dear Sirs,
"Yours truly,
"Tom Taylor.
"Messrs. Dalziel
"P.S.—I send you two samples of the kind of illustration I should supply to the drawings.
P.S.—If my terms or my verses do not suit you, I should suggest your application to the Rev. J. W. Barnes, of Dorchester, author of two very remarkable volumes of poems in the Dorset dialect. Our respective contributions to be distinguished by initials of the writers."
Taylor, in undertaking the commission, said:
"... Who played
Beneath the same green tree,
Whose voices mingled as they prayed
Around one parent knee!"
"The Graves of the Household."—Mrs. Hemans.