nately lost. The honour to which he alludes was the setting his Ode on the Passions to music.
"TO DR. WILLIAM HAYES, PROFESSOR of MUSIC, OXFORD."
"Sir,
"Mr. Blackstone of Winchester some time since informed me of the honour you had done me at Oxford last summer; for which I return you my sincere thanks. I have another more perfect copy of the ode; which, had I known your obliging design, I would have communicated to you. Inform me by a line, if you should think one of my better judgment acceptable. In such case I could send you one written on a nobler subject; and which, though I have been persuaded to bring it forth in London, I think more calculated for an audience in the university. The subject is the Music of the Grecian Theatre; in which I have, I hope naturally, introduced the various characters with which the chorus was concerned, as Œdipus, Medea, Electra, Orestes, etc. etc. The composition too is probably more correct, as I have chosen the ancient tragedies for my models, and only copied the most affecting passages in them.
"In the mean time, you would greatly oblige me by sending the score of the last. If you can get it written, I will readily answer the expense.
