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 CHAPTER XXXIII.

HAMPSTEAD; AND YOUTHFUL DISCIPLES. 1825—27. [. 68—70.]

following letter is the first in a brief series preserved by Mr. Linnell, interesting as among the comparatively small number of Blake's writing extant. Apart from those which were the result of his stay at Felpham, I think he wrote but few. It is to 'Mrs. Linnell, Collins's Farm, North End, Hampstead,' and is dated Tuesday, 11th October, 1825:—

Blake was, at this period, in the habit, when well, of spending frequent happy Sundays at his friend's Hampstead