Autograph letter signed with initials : Woodbridge, to Allan [Cunningham], 1830 [February] 26.

Quoting from a letter about William Blake that he received six years earlier from Charles Lamb after receiving permission that morning from Lamb to share it with Cunningham; explaining to Cunningham that Lamb's letter followed Barton's questioning whether a poem attributed to Blake might actually have been written by Lamb; saying "...I could not help fancying it was a Production of Lamb's, for Blake I had never heard of: and it was in consequence of my expressing such a suspicion that our ingenious Friend gave me the following curious account of Blake - 'Blake is a real Name, I assure you: and a most extraordinary Man he is, if he be still living. He is the Blake whose wild designs accompany a splendid Folio Edition of the Night Thoughts, which you may perhaps have seen, or heard of; in one of which he pictures the parting of Soul and Body by a solid mass of human form floating off, God knows how, from a lumpish mass (facsimile to itself) left behind on the dying bed;" continuing, at length, to describe many of Blake's paintings; adding that "His poems have been hitherto sold only in Manuscript: I never read them; but a Friend at my desire, procured me the Sweep Song. There is one to a Tiger, which I have recited, beginning 'Tiger, tiger, burning bright;" commenting on the strong sales of Cunningham's book [Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters ... (London, 1830)] and adding "...would that it might be productive of results likely to promote the comfort of Blake's noble-minded & simple-hearted Widow during the remaining short span of her Life;" being inspired by the anecdotes "...given of Blake in thy Biography" he has composed a poem titled "A Fairy's Funeral" which he sets forth in full."