Blake, William, 1757-1827

Scope and Contents This collection contains two letters of correspondence from William Blake, three documents relating to his trial in 1804, correspondence of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), the famous lyric poet, to Seymour Stocker Kirkup (1788-1880) commenting on Blake, spiritualism, and his engravings, mostly from the 1860s. Later correspondence, newspaper clippings, and invoices mostly from the 1940s regarding Blake’s engravings, especially those in printed books such as those of Poetical Works of...