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LETTERS OF WILLIAM BLAKE.

was likewise not at home, but I will again call on Mr. Walker, Jun., and beg him to show me the pictures and make every inquiry of him, if you think best. Mr. Sanders has one or two large cartoons. The subject he does not know. They are folded up on the top of his workshop: the rest he packed up and sent into the north. I showed your letter to Mr. John Romney[1] to Mr. Flaxman, who was perfectly satisfied with it. I sealed and sent it immediately, as directed by Mr. Sanders, to Kendall, Westmoreland. Mr. Sanders expects Mr. Romney in town soon. Note, your letter to Mr. J. Romney; I sent off the money after I received it from you, being then in health. I have taken your noble present to Mr. Rose,[2] and left it with charge, to the servant, of great care. The writing looks very pretty. I was fortunate in doing it myself, and hit it off excellently. I have not seen Mr. Rose, though he is in town. Mr. Flaxman is not at all acquainted with Sir Alan Chambrè;[3] recommends me to inquire concerning him of Mr. Rose. My brother says he believes Sir Alan is a Master

  1. 1758-1832, only surviving son of the painter; quarrelled with Hayley, and in 1830 published a Life of his father, in which Hayley is bitterly attacked.
  2. Samuel Rose, who defended Blake on his trial for sedition.
  3. Sir Alan Chambrè (1739-1823), Recorder of Lancaster; Baron of the Exchequer, 2nd July 1799; succeeded Sir Francis Buller at the Court of Common Pleas; resigned 181 5. He was painted by Romney (see Ward and Roberts' Romney^ vol. ii. p. 27).