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ED; E783|     91

 
L91.1Cumberland4'27; E783|        [To] George Cumberland Esqre, Culver Street, Bristol

 
L91.1Cumberland4'27; E783|        N 3 Fountain Court Strand 12 April 1827
L91.1Cumberland4'27; E783|        Dear Cumberland
L91.1Cumberland4'27; E783|        I have been very near the Gates of Death & have returned
L91.1Cumberland4'27; E783|        very weak & an Old Man feeble & tottering, but not in Spirit &
L91.1Cumberland4'27; E783|        Life not in The Real Man The Imagination which Liveth for Ever.
L91.1Cumberland4'27; E783|        In that I am stronger & stronger as this Foolish Body decays. I
L91.1Cumberland4'27; E783|        thank you for the Pains you have taken with Poor Job. I know too
L91.1Cumberland4'27; E783|        well that a great majority of Englishmen are fond of The
L91.1Cumberland4'27; E783|        Indefinite which they Measure by Newtons Doctrine of the Fluxions
L91.1Cumberland4'27; E783|        of an Atom. A Thing that does not Exist. These are Politicians
L91.1Cumberland4'27; E783|        & think that Republican Art is Inimical to their Atom. For a
L91.1Cumberland4'27; E783|        Line or Lineament is not formed by Chance a Line is a Line in its
L91.1Cumberland4'27; E783|        Minutest Subdivision[s] Strait or Crooked It is Itself & Not
L91.1Cumberland4'27; E783|        Intermeasurable with or by any Thing Else Such is Job but since
L91.1Cumberland4'27; E783|        the French Revolution Englishmen are all Intermeasurable One by
L91.1Cumberland4'27; E783|        Another Certainly a happy state of Agreement to which I for One
L91.1Cumberland4'27; E783|        do not Agree. God keep me from the Divinity of Yes & No too The
L91.1Cumberland4'27; E783|        Yea Nay Creeping Jesus from supposing Up & Down to be the same
L91.1Cumberland4'27; E783|        Thing as all Experimentalists must suppose
L91.2Cumberland4'27; E783|        You are desirous I know to dispose of some of my Works & to
L91.2Cumberland4'27; E783|        make <them> Pleasin[g], I am obliged to you & to all who do so
L91.2Cumberland4'27; E783|        But having none remaining of all that I had Printed I cannot
L91.2Cumberland4'27; E783|        Print more Except at a great loss for at the time I printed those
L91.2Cumberland4'27; E783|        things I had a whole House to range in now I am shut up in a
L91.2Cumberland4'27; E783|        Corner therefore am forced to ask a Price for them that I

 
L91.2Cumberland4'27; E784|        scarce expect to get from a Stranger. I am now Printing a Set of
L91.2Cumberland4'27; E784|        the Songs of Innocence & Experience for a Friend at Ten Guineas
L91.2Cumberland4'27; E784|        which I cannot do under Six Months consistent with my other Work,
L91.2Cumberland4'27; E784|        so that I have little hope of doing any more of such things. the
L91.2Cumberland4'27; E784|        Last Work I produced is a Poem Entitled Jerusalem the Emanation
L91.2Cumberland4'27; E784|        of the Giant Albion, but find that to Print it will Cost my Time
L91.2Cumberland4'27; E784|        the amount of Twenty Guineas One I have Finishd It contains 100
L91.2Cumberland4'27; E784|        Plates but it is not likely that I shall get a Customer for it
L91.3Cumberland4'27; E784|        As you wish me to send you a list with the Prices of these
L91.3Cumberland4'27; E784|        things they are as follows

 
L91.3Cumberland4'27; E784|        L s d
L91.3Cumberland4'27; E784|        America 6. 6. 0
L91.3Cumberland4'27; E784|        Europe 6. 6. 0
L91.3Cumberland4'27; E784|        Visions &/c 5. 5. 0
L91.3Cumberland4'27; E784|        Thel 3. 3. 0
L91.3Cumberland4'27; E784|        Songs of Inn. & Exp. 10. 10. 0
L91.3Cumberland4'27; E784|        Urizen 6. 6. 0

 
L91.4Cumberland4'27; E784|        The Little Card I will do as soon as Possible but when you
L91.4Cumberland4'27; E784|        Consider that I have been reduced to a Skeleton from which I am
L91.4Cumberland4'27; E784|        slowly recovering you will I hope have Patience with me.
L91.5Cumberland4'27; E784|        Flaxman is Gone & we must All soon follow every one to his
L91.5Cumberland4'27; E784|        Own Eternal House Leaving the Delusive Goddess Nature & her Laws
L91.5Cumberland4'27; E784|        to get into Freedom from all Law of the Members into The Mind in
L91.5Cumberland4'27; E784|        which every one is King & Priest in his own House God Send it so
L91.5Cumberland4'27; E784|        on Earth as it is in Heaven
L91.5Cumberland4'27; E784|        I am Dear Sir Yours Affectionately
L91.5Cumberland4'27; E784|        WILLIAM BLAKE

 

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