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Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846) after William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Sonnett addressed to B.R. Haydon by W. Wordsworth - Dec 27, 1815 Manuscript transcript in Haydon's hand, of the poem High is our calling, Friend! , headed as above, with a drawing of a hand below Pen and ink on wove paper, unframed 18 x 11.5 cm (7 x 4 1/2 in) This sonnet was one of three dedicated by Wordsworth to Haydon. It was originally written on December 21st, 1815, and Haydon later wrote in his autobiography, "Now, reader! was not this glorious?" During this period, he was also the recipient of four poems by Keats and one by Elizabeth Browning, amongst others. This transcript by Haydon, written within days of receiving the original (present whereabouts unknown), was found in an album belonging to his friend Elizabeth Dufresne (see preceding lots). The hand represented below may be Wordsworth's, as Haydon drew it on other occasions, or his own. Or possibly simply the hand of 'Creative Art'. Condition report: Wove paper with a small loss to upper left corner just affecting first letters of two-line heading, paper accretions on the verso of other three corners