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Lambeth 23 Decembr 1796 a Merry Christmas
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Dear Cumberland
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I have lately had some pricks of conscience on account of
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not acknowledging your friendship to me [before]
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immediately on the reciet of your. beautiful book. I have
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likewise had by me all the summer 6 Plates which you desired me
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to get made for you. they have laid on my shelf. without speaking
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to tell me whose they were or that they were [there] at
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all & it was some time (when I found them) before I could divine
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whence they came or whither they were bound or whether they were
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to lie there to eternity. I have now sent them to you to be
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transmuted, thou real Alchymist!
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Go on Go on. such works as yours Nature & Providence the
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Eternal Parents demand from their children how few produce them
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in such perfection how Nature smiles on them. how Providence
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rewards them. How all your Brethren say, The sound of his harp
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& his flute heard from his secret forest chears us to the labours
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of life. & we plow & reap forgetting our labour
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Let us see you sometimes as well as sometimes hear from you
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& let us often See your Works
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Compliments to Mr Cumberland & Family
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Yours in head & heart
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WILL BLAKE