Autograph letter signed : Olney, to Walter Bagot, 1786 May 20.

Explaining why he has not written to him in a long time; reporting that he came to the end of his translation of the Iliad but then returned to the beginning to make improvements; declaring himself "never in [his] life so convinced of the soundness of Horace's advice to publish nothing in haste," but noting that he thinks Horace's recommendation to wait nine years before publishing too long; telling him that he has "advanced into the middle of the 7th" book of the Iliad in his project of reworking his translation; asking him to thank his brother Howard for his generous subscription to his forthcoming translation; remarking that Chester "furnished [him] with [Joshua] Barnes's Homer, from whose notes [he] collect[s] here and there some useful information"; adding that he saw Bagot's sister at Mr. Throckmorton's.