Ozias Humphry, Sloane Street, to R. B[rawn]
He may recollect that, due to disagreement in the membership,
James Wyatt was elected President of the Royal Academy for the year in December 1805, in order to provide the members with pause to discuss how to better govern the institution. The year has now elapsed without producing the desired effect. He wonders whether the
King would object to the re-election of
Benjamin West, something which is desired by all the most respectable Academicians.