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LETTERS OF WILLIAM BLAKE.
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viii. One other which I omitted to write down and have forgot, but think that it was a figure with children, which he called a "Charity."

I write immediately on receiving the above information, because no time should be lost in this truly interesting business.

Richardson is not yet published. My "Head of Romney"[1] is in very great forwardness. Parker commends it highly. Flaxman has not yet seen it, but shall soon, and then you shall have a proof of it for your remarks also. I hope by this time Flaxman has written to you, and that you will soon receive such documents as will enable you to decide on what is to be done in our desirable and arduous task of doing justice to our admired, sublime Romney. I have not yet been able to meet Mr. Braithwaite[2] at home, but intend very soon to call again, and (as you wish) to write all I can collect from him. Be so good as to give me your earliest decision on what would be safe and not too venturesome in the number of projected engravings, that I may put it into a brain to be properly executed.

We both rejoice in the generous Paulina's[3] return, with recovered strength, to her delightful villa; please to present our sincerest affections to

  1. It was not used for the Life.
  2. See note 2, p. 142.
  3. Miss Poole.