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L10.1Cumberland7'00; E706|        [To] Mr [George] Cumberland, Bishopsgate,
L10.1Cumberland7'00; E706|        Windsor Great Park

 
L10.1Cumberland7'00; E706|        13 Hercules Buildings, Lambeth, 2 July 1800
L10.1Cumberland7'00; E706|        Dear Cumberland
L10.1Cumberland7'00; E706|        I have to congratulate you on your plan for a National
L10.1Cumberland7'00; E706|        Gallery being put into Execution. All your wishes shall in due
L10.1Cumberland7'00; E706|        time be fulfilled the immense flood of Grecian light & glory
L10.1Cumberland7'00; E706|        which is coming on Europe will more than realize our warmest
L10.1Cumberland7'00; E706|        wishes. Your honours will be unbounded when your plan shall be
L10.1Cumberland7'00; E706|        carried into Execution as it must be if England continues a
L10.1Cumberland7'00; E706|        Nation. I hear that it is now in the hands of Ministers That the
L10.1Cumberland7'00; E706|        King shews it great Countenance & Encouragement, that it will
L10.1Cumberland7'00; E706|        soon be up before Parliament & that it must be extended
L10.1Cumberland7'00; E706|        & enlarged to take in Originals both of Painting & Sculpture by
L10.1Cumberland7'00; E706|        considering Every valuable original that is brought into England
L10.1Cumberland7'00; E706|        or can be purchasd Abroad as its objects of Acquisition. Such is
L10.1Cumberland7'00; E706|        the Plan as I am told & such must be the plan if England wishes
L10.1Cumberland7'00; E706|        to continue at all worth notice as you have yourself observd only
L10.1Cumberland7'00; E706|        now we must possess Originals as well as France or be Nothing
L10.2Cumberland7'00; E706|        Excuse I intreat you my not returning Thanks at the proper
L10.2Cumberland7'00; E706|        moment for your kind present. No perswasion could make my
L10.2Cumberland7'00; E706|        stupid bead believe that it was proper for me to trouble you with
L10.2Cumberland7'00; E706|        a letter of meer Compliment & Expression of thanks. I begin to
L10.2Cumberland7'00; E706|        Emerge from a Deep pit of Melancholy, Melancholy without any real
L10.2Cumberland7'00; E706|        reason for it, a Disease which God keep you from & all good men.
L10.2Cumberland7'00; E706|        Our artists of all ranks praise your outlines & wish for more.
L10.2Cumberland7'00; E706|        Flaxman is very warm in your commendation & more and more of A
L10.2Cumberland7'00; E706|        Grecian. Mr Hayley has lately mentiond your Work on outline in
L10.2Cumberland7'00; E706|        Notes to [Epistles on Sculpture] an Essay on Sculpture
L10.2Cumberland7'00; E706|        in Six Epistles to John Flaxman, I have been too little among
L10.2Cumberland7'00; E706|        friends which I fear they will not Excuse & I know not how to
L10;2Cumberland7'00; E706|        [gi] apologize for. Poor Fuseli sore from the lash of
L10.2Cumberland7'00; E706|        Envious tongues praises you & dispraises with the same breath he
L10.2Cumberland7'00; E706|        is not naturally good natured but he is artificially very ill
L10.2Cumberland7'00; E706|        natured yet even from him I learn the Estimation you are held in
L10.2Cumberland7'00; E706|        among artists & connoisseurs.
L10.3Cumberland7'00; E706|        I am still Employd in making Designs & little Pictures with
L10.3Cumberland7'00; E706|        now & then an Engraving & find that in future to live will not be
L10.3Cumberland7'00; E706|        so difficult as it has been It is very Extraordinary that London
L10.3Cumberland7'00; E706|        in so few years from a City of meer Necessaries or at l[e]ast a
L10.3Cumberland7'00; E706|        commerce of the lowest order of luxuries should have become a
L10.3Cumberland7'00; E706|        City of Elegance in some degree & that its once stupid
L10.3Cumberland7'00; E706|        inhabitants should enter into an Emulation of Grecian manners.
L10.3Cumberland7'00; E706|        There are now I believe as many Booksellers as there are Butchers
L10.3Cumberland7'00; E706|        & as many Printshops as of any other trade We remember when a
L10.3Cumberland7'00; E706|        Print shop was a rare bird in London & I myself remember when I
L10.3Cumberland7'00; E706|        thought my pursuits of Art a kind of Criminal Dissipation &
L10.3Cumberland7'00; E706|        neglect of the main chance which I hid my face for not being able
L10.3Cumberland7'00; E706|        to abandon as a Passion which is forbidden by Law & Religion, but
L10.3Cumberland7'00; E706|        now

 
L10.3Cumberland7'00; E707|        it appears to be Law & Gospel too, at least I hear so from the
L10.3Cumberland7'00; E707|        few friends I have dared to visit in my stupid Melancholy.
L10.3Cumberland7'00; E707|        Excuse this communication of sentiments which I felt necessary to
L10.3Cumberland7'00; E707|        my repose at this time. I feel very strongly that I neglect my
L10.3Cumberland7'00; E707|        Duty to my Friends, but It is not want of Gratitude or Friendship
L10.3Cumberland7'00; E707|        but perhaps an Excess of both.
L10.4Cumberland7'00; E707|        Let me hear of your welfare. Remember My & My Wifes
L10.4Cumberland7'00; E707|        Respectful Compliments to Mrs Cumberland & Family
L10.4Cumberland7'00; E707|        & believe me to be for Ever
L10.4Cumberland7'00; E707|        Yours
L10.4Cumberland7'00; E707|        WILLIAM BLAKE
 
 
 

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