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ED; E740| 35
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To William Hayley Esqre, Felpham,
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near Chichester, Sussex
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Sth Molton Street Friday Jan/y 27. 1804
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Dear Sir
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Your eager expectation of hearing from me compells me to
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write immediately tho I have not done half the business I wishd
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owing to a violent cold which confind me to my bed 3 days & to my
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chamber a week. I am now so well (thank God) as to get out &
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have accordingly been to Mr Walkers who is not in town being
at
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Birmingham where he will remain 6 Weeks or 2 Months I took my
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Portrait of Romney as you desired to shew him. his So was
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likewise not at home: but I will again call on Mr Walker Junr
&
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beg him to shew me the Pictures. & make every enquiry of him, If
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you think best:--Mr Sanders has one or two large Cartoons, The
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Subjects he does not know. they are folded up on the top of his
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workshop the rest he packd up & sent into the North. I shewd
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your Letter to Mr John Romney to Mr Flaxman who was
perfectly
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satisfied with it. I seald & sent it immediately as directed by
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Mr Sanders to Kendall. Westmoreland. Mr Sanders expects
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Romney in town soon. Note, Your Letter to Mr J Romney I sent
off
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the morning after I recievd
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it from you being then in health I have taken your noble present
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to Mr Rose & left it with charge to the Servant of Great
Care the
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Writing looks very pretty I was fortunate in doing it myself &
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hit it off excellently I have not seen Mr Rose, tho he is in
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town. Mr Flaxman is not at all acquainted with Sr
Allan Chambre
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recommends me to enquire concerning him of Mr Rose my brother
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says he believes Sr Allan is a Master in Chancery.-- Tho I have
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calld on Mr Edwards twice for Lady Hamiltons direction was so
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unfortunate as to find him Out both times I will repeat my Call
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on him tomorrow morning
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My Dear Sir I write now to satisfy you that all is in a good
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train I am going on briskly with the Plates find every thing
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promising. Work in Abundance; & if God blesses me with health
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doubt not yet to make a Figure in the Great Dance of Life that
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shall amuse the Spectators in the Sky. I hank You for my
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Demosthenes which is now become a noble subject--My Wife gets
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better every Day. hope earnestly that you have entirely escaped
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the brush of my Evil Star. Which I believe is now for ever
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fallen into the Abyss. God bless & preserve You & our Good Lady
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Paulina with the Good things both of this life & of eternity &
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with you my much admired & respected Edward the Bard of Oxford
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whose verses still sound upon my Ear like the distant approach of
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things mighty & magnificent like the sound of harps which I hear
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before the Suns rising like the remembrance of Felphams waves &
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of the Glorious & far beaming Turret, like the Villa of Lavant
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blessed & blessing Amen God bless you all O people of Sussex
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around your Hermit & Bard So prays the Emulator of both his &
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your mild & happy tempers of Soul your Devoted
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WILL BLAKE
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