Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

205. Autograph letter to Mrs. John Flaxman 1

Blake and the sculptor John Flaxman became friends as students at the Royal Academy. This letter to Mrs. Flaxman from Mrs. Blake, who was probably illiterate, was written only a few days before the Blakes moved from Lambeth to Felpham. Blake's poem, shown on the left, is an invitation for them to come for a visit, "Away to Sweet Felpham for Heaven is there / The Ladder of angels descends thro the air."

The first page of the letter has been reproduced on old paper and laid to the side.

Catherine Blake (1761-1831), Autograph letter, dated Lambeth, 14 September 1800, to Mrs. John Flaxman, in the hand of William Blake, MA 6048