...d not overestimate Endymion, and perhaps a sense of humor which was not wanting in him may have served as a buffer against the too importunate shock of disappointment. He made Ritchie promise, says Haydon , he would carry his Endymion to the great desert of Sahara and fling it in the midst. On the 9th October, 1818, he writes to his publisher, Mr. Hessey, I cannot but feel indebted to those gentleme...