improve; everything is elegant, clean, and neat; the streets are widened where they were narrow; even Snow Hill is become almost level, and is a very handsome street; and the narrow part of the Strand near St. Clement s is widened and become very elegant.
My wife continues poorly, but fancies she is better in health here than by the seaside. We both sincerely pray for the health of Miss Poole, and for all our friends in Sussex, and remain, dear sir, your sincere and devoted servants,
W. and C. Blake.
29.
From John Flaxman to William Hayley.
Buckingham Street, Fitzroy Square,
2nd January 1804.
Dear and kind Friend,—Mr. Blake s opinion that the drawing sent from Norfolk may be advantageously engraved for the ensuing volume of Cowper's Life, as an agreeable perspective of the situation, seems very just, whilst the Monument itself may be represented on a larger scale in a vignette,[1] and for the materials on this subject, he
- ↑ See Hayley's Life of Cowper (1803-1804), (i) vol. iii. Frontispiece. "A View of St. Edmund^s Chapel in the Church of East
