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No one who knows anything of Hayley will doubt that, if he had known of it, he would have found some opportunity of mentioning it.

I had already come to the conclusion that no sufficient reason existed for believing the picture in the Portrait Gallery to represent Cowper, when my attention was drawn to a letter by Mr. W. Roberts in the Athenæum of February 27, 1900, in which the whole case against it is strongly put. There is more to be said in its favour, perhaps, than Mr. Roberts allows; but, when all possible admissions have been made, the balance seems to me to be so decidedly against it that I have not felt justified in reproducing it with the others in this edition.

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