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<bad id="bb134.6" type="ms" work="Receipt, 3 March 1806 (for 12 May 1805 to March 1806)" copy="6" copyid="6"
institution="westminster" catalog="bentley" catid="bb134.6">
<header>
<filedesc>
<titlestmt>
<title reg="Receipt, 3 March 1806 (for 12 May 1805 to March 1806)">
<main>Receipt, 3 March 1806 (for 12 May 1805 to March 1806)</main> : electronic edition </title>
<principal>
<resp>Editors: </resp>
<name>Morris Eaves,</name>University of Rochester; <name>Robert
Essick,</name>University of California, Riverside; and <name>Joseph
Viscomi</name>, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</principal>
<respstmt> </respstmt>
<sponsor>The Library of Congress, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
and the University of Rochester</sponsor>
<funder/>
</titlestmt>
<editionstmt>Blake Archive Description DTD Version 2005</editionstmt>
<extent>1 XML file approx. 6KB; 6 JPEG (ISO/IEC 10918) files ranging in size from approx. 80KB
to 1.5MB</extent>
<publicationstmt>Chapel Hill: Eaves, Essick, Viscomi; UNC Libraries<date>February 2019</date></publicationstmt>
<seriesstmt>The William Blake Archive</seriesstmt>
<updatestmt> The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the publication of digital
editions of Blake's receipts. <lb/> Commerce is so far from being beneficial to Arts
or to Empire that it is destructive of both” ("Public Address"). "Where any view of
Money exists Art cannot be carried on." "Christianity is Art & not Money"
(Laocoön). Rail as he might about the destructive force of commerce and money as
"The Great Satan," Blake had to recognize that money is also "the lifes blood of
Poor Families" (Laocoön)—and Catherine and William Blake were often a poor family.
Blake's biographer Gilchrist tells the story of Catherine Blake's way of reminding
her husband that money was running out—by putting an empty plate in front of him.
One hoped-for effect was money exchanged for goods or services, perhaps paintings,
engravings, or drawing lessons—verified by a receipt. <lb/>
<lb/> Receipts remind us of bookkeepers and taxes. For most people most of the time,
receipts surely fall near the bottom in rank order of interest and importance—until
we need one that is missing or discover one that proves something otherwise
uncertain or unknown. Their unstable place in the hierarchy of documents makes them
rare. They tend to be small, easily overlooked, or discarded when the works they
signify move along from place to place, generation to generation. The ones published
here are survivors, and most have never been reproduced. <lb/>
<lb/> Blake's receipts often help to establish the first buyer of his works—and the
date when a specified amount of money was exchanged for specified objects. Beyond
that, the receipts teach lessons in the easily overlooked business side of Blake's
arts and the arts of his era, in which he was a full if frustrated participant. And
the documents are often striking. There are beautiful receipts in formal words,
numbers, and symbols precisely inscribed in fancy handwriting, decorated with
colorful seals that certify the transactions. Equally eye catching, there are
scrawled, scratchy composites that are simply fascinating to look at. And there are,
of course, plain, practical lists laid out more or less neatly in columns. <lb/>
<lb/>In our treatment of the receipts, we are departing from the editorial
principles favored by earlier editors: Geoffrey Keynes mixed receipts and letters in
a single chronologically ordered category; David V. Erdman largely excluded them; G.
E. Bentley, Jr., excluded them from his edition of William Blake's Writings and
moved them into an elaborate appendix to Blake Records that attempts to cover a
broad range of transactions from multiple angles—including, for example, the
receipts generated by Blake's customer, promoter, and friend John Linnell, a careful
keeper of accounts, in the course of producing Blake’s engraved <hi rend="i"
>Illustrations of the Book of Job</hi> (22 plates, 1823-26). Bentley assembled
Linnell's payments to Blake but also to dealers in copper, "french paper" and
"Drawing paper," in specialized printing for engravings, and cloth bindings, among
other products and services (BR 2nd ed., appendix 3, "Blake's Accounts"). <lb/> We
have decided instead to publish the receipts in adjacent but separate categories to
focus attention on a distinctive commercial genre with some striking historical
features. But the border between receipts and letters is porous because Blake's
financial and personal dealings are entwined. As he embeds poems in his letters,
complicating distinctions between them, he similarly personalizes sterile lists of
products and prices with greetings, inquiries, and news. And sometimes what we label
a receipt is strictly not—but rather, say, a formal contract to carry out a project
on specified terms, such as the 25 March 1823 "Memorandum of Agreement" to engrave
the drawings that would be published as Illustrations of the Book of Job—on copper
plates that would be provided by Linnell. The agreement is in Linnell's hand, with
signatures by both men. Deciding how to treat documents that defy the rules of our
rigid categories is one of the questionable pleasures of editing. <lb/> Special
thanks to the City of Westminster Archives Center for their courteous assistance,
excellent digital images, and willingness to share Kerrison Preston's Blake library
with the world. <lb/> As always, the William Blake Archive is a free site, imposing
no access restrictions and charging no subscription fees. The site is made possible
by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with the University of Rochester,
the continuing support of the Library of Congress, and the cooperation of the
international array of libraries and museums that have generously given us
permission to reproduce works from their collections in the Archive.</updatestmt>
<notesstmt/>
</filedesc>
<userestrict>Copyright © <date>2019</date> by Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph
Viscomi, all rights reserved. Items in the Archive may be shared in accordance with the
Fair Use provisions of U.S. copyright law. Redistribution or republication on other terms,
in any medium, requires express written consent from the editors and advance notification
of the publisher. Permission to reproduce the graphic images in this archive has been
granted by the owners of the originals for this publication only.<lb/>
<lb/>This work copyright © 2019 City of Westminster Archives Centre.
</userestrict>
<encodingdesc/>
<profiledesc/>
<revisiondesc>
<changestmt>
<change>Final proofing and publication</change>
<date>February 2019</date>
<respstmt>
<resp>Editors:</resp>
<name>Morris Eaves,</name>
University of Rochester;
<name>Robert Essick,</name>
University of California, Riverside; and
<name>Joseph Viscomi,</name>
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
<resp>Assistant Editor:</resp>
<name>Michael Fox</name>
<resp>Managing Editor:</resp>
<name>Joseph Fletcher</name>
<resp>Assistant Project Manager:</resp>
<name>Grant Glass</name>
<resp>Project Coordinator, University of Rochester:</resp>
<name>Eric Loy</name>
<resp>Consultants on Special Projects:</resp>
<name>Ashley Reed,</name>
<name>Nikolaus Wasmoen,</name>
<name>Laura Whitebell</name>
<resp>Bibliographer:</resp>
<name>Mark Crosby</name>
<resp>Project Assistants:</resp>
<name>Katherine Calvin,</name>
<name>Erin Francisco,</name>
<name>Ani Govjian,</name>
<name>Rachael Isom,</name>
<name>Joey Kingsley,</name>
<name>Mary Learner,</name>
<name>Rob Rich,</name>
<name>Anneke Schwob,</name>
<name>Oishani Sengupta,</name>
<name>Elizabeth Shand,</name>
<name>Matthew Skwiat,</name>
<name>Jewell Thomas,</name>
<name>Marcie Woehl,</name>
<name>Meaghan Green,</name>
<name>Kendall DeBoer</name>
<name>Helen Davies</name>
</respstmt>
</changestmt>
<changestmt>
<change>
Textual transcriptions and notes
</change>
<date>September 2017</date>
<respstmt>
<resp>Editors:</resp>
<name>Morris Eaves,</name>
University of Rochester;
<name>Robert Essick,</name>
University of California, Riverside; and
<name>Joseph Viscomi,</name>
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
<resp>Assistant Editor:</resp>
<name>Michael Fox</name>
<resp>Managing Editor:</resp>
<name>Joseph Fletcher</name>
<resp>Assistant Project Manager:</resp>
<name>Grant Glass</name>
<resp>Project Coordinator, University of Rochester:</resp>
<name>Eric Loy</name>
<resp>Consultants on Special Projects:</resp>
<name>Ashley Reed,</name>
<name>Nikolaus Wasmoen,</name>
<name>Laura Whitebell</name>
<resp>Bibliographer:</resp>
<name>Mark Crosby</name>
<resp>Project Assistants:</resp>
<name>Katherine Calvin,</name>
<name>Erin Francisco,</name>
<name>Ani Govjian,</name>
<name>Alison Harper,</name>
<name>Rachael Isom,</name>
<name>Joey Kingsley,</name>
<name>Mary Learner,</name>
<name>Rob Rich,</name>
<name>Anneke Schwob,</name>
<name>Oishani Sengupta,</name>
<name>Elizabeth Shand,</name>
<name>Matthew Skwiat,</name>
<name>Jewell Thomas,</name>
<name>Emily Tronson,</name>
<name>Lisa Vandenbossche,</name>
<name>Alex Zawacki</name>
</respstmt>
</changestmt>
<changestmt>
<change>BADs created</change>
<date>January 2012</date>
<respstmt>
<resp>Editors: </resp>
<name>Morris Eaves, </name>
University of Rochester;
<name>Robert Essick, </name>
University of California, Riverside; and
<name>Joseph Viscomi, </name>
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
<resp>Technical Editor: </resp>
<name>William Shaw</name>
<resp>Project Manager: </resp>
<name>Ashley Reed</name>
<resp>Project Coordinator, University of Rochester:</resp>
<name>Rachel Lee</name>
<resp>Project Assistants: </resp>
<name>Esther Arnold, </name>
<name>Kate Attkisson, </name>
<name>Laura Bell, </name>
<name>Lauren Cameron, </name>
<name>Katherine Carlson, </name>
<name>Cassandra Etter-Wenzel, </name>
<name>Andrea Everett, </name>
<name>Joseph Fletcher</name>
<name>Ali McGhee, </name>
<name>Jennifer Park, </name>
<name>Adair Rispoli, </name>
<name>Sarah Shaw, </name>
<name>Hardeep Sidhu, </name>
<name>Sarah Tolf, </name>
<name>Nikolaus Wasmoen, </name>
<name>Bihan Zhang</name>
</respstmt>
</changestmt>
</revisiondesc>
</header>
<objdesc>
<source>
<objdescid>
<objtitle>
<title>Receipt, 3 March 1806 (for 12 May 1805 to March 1806)</title>
</objtitle>
<origination>Thomas Butts
<role>author,</role>
<role>inventor,</role>
<role>delineator.</role>
</origination>
<origination>William Blake
<role>author,</role>
<role>inventor,</role>
<role>delineator. This receipt is partly written by Thomas Butts and partly written by Blake.</role>
</origination>
<compdate value="1806.A">1805-1806</compdate>
</objdescid>
<objinfo>
<numberobj>3</numberobj>
<objorder>1-3</objorder>
<objsize>15.6 x 18.9 cm. and 7.8 x 20.0 cm.</objsize>
<numberleaves>2<note/>
</numberleaves>
<leafsize>15.6 x 18.9 cm. and 7.8 x 20.0 cm.</leafsize>
<medium>pen and ink</medium>
<inkcolor>black</inkcolor>
<support>laid paper</support>
<watermark>none</watermark>
<binding>none</binding>
</objinfo>
<provenance n="1">
<name>Westminster City Archives</name>
<date>1967</date>
<dealer></dealer>
<price>Not recorded</price>
<note>Thomas Butts; from the Butts collection; acquired from Butts's grandson, Captain Butts between 1903 and 1906 by the late W. Graham Robertson; bequeathed by Robertson to his executor, Kerrison Preston about 1948; presented by Preston with his Blake collection to the City of Westminster Reference Library in 1967. </note>
</provenance>
<repository>
<institution>Westminster City Archives</institution>
<addressline>10 St. Ann's Street</addressline>
<addressline>London</addressline>
<addressline>SW1P 2DE</addressline>
<addressline>United Kingdom</addressline>
<addressline>Telephone: 020 7641 5180</addressline>
<addressline>Fax: 020 7641 5179</addressline>
<addressline>E-mail: archives@westminster.gov.uk</addressline>
<addressline>URL: https://www.westminster.gov.uk/archives</addressline>
<department>Special Collections</department>
<collection>Preston Blake Collection</collection>
<repositoryid label="Call number">Accession 924</repositoryid>
</repository>
</source>
<desc id="bb134.6.ms.01" dbi="BB134.6.1.MS">
<objtitle>
<title type="transcribed">May-December 1805, page 1</title>
<title type="alt">Accounts between Blake and Thomas Butts, May-December 1805</title>,
<objid>
<objnumber code="A1">Object 1 </objnumber>
<objcode code="B6-1">(Bentley Receipt 6.1)</objcode>
</objid>
</objtitle>
<physdesc desclevel="brief">
<objsize>15.6 x 18.9 cm.</objsize>
<objnote>
<p>This receipt is written on both sides of a full sheet of paper and continued on a slip of paper attached by a wafer to the sheet. This object is the recto of the full sheet.</p>
<p>This receipt is partly written by Thomas Butts and partly written by Blake.</p>
</objnote>
<windowsize width="500" height="630"/>
</physdesc>
<phystext>
<lg justify="left">
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.01" justify="left" indent="10">M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Butts — <space extent="32"/>D.<hi rend="superscript">r</hi><space extent="4"/>____________________________ C<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.02" justify="left" indent="6">May 12 1805<space extent="38"/>Jan<hi rend="superscript">y</hi> 12</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.03" justify="left" indent="9">Due on Account<space extent="13"/>_________0.4.0<space extent="5"/><hi rend="strikethrough">By Cash</hi>______________________ 12.12.0</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.04" justify="left" indent="6">12 Drawings Viz</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.05" justify="left" indent="6">1 Famine 2 War 3 Moses Striking the Rock</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.06" justify="left" indent="6">4 Ezekiels Wheels 5 Christ girding himself</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.07" justify="left" indent="6">with Strength 6 Four & twenty Elders</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.08" justify="left" indent="6">7 Christ Baptizing 8 Samson <choice><orig>breakg</orig><reg>breaking</reg></choice> bonds
<note>Keynes (*Letters*, page 113) reads "breakg" as "breaking". Bentley (*Blake Records*, page 764) reads "breakg" with a superscript "g".</note></l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.09" justify="left" indent="6">9 Samson <choice><orig>subdud</orig><reg>subdued</reg></choice> 10 Noah & Rainbow
<note>Keynes (*Letters*, page 113) reads "subdud" as "subdu'd".</note></l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.10" justify="left" indent="6">11 Wise & foolish Virgins 12 Hell beneath is</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.11" justify="left" indent="7">moved for thee &<hi rend="superscript">c</hi> from Isaiah __________12.12.0</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.12" justify="left" indent="9">5 July<space extent="42"/>5 July</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.13" justify="left" indent="12">4 Prints Viz<space extent="37"/>By d°_______________________5.7.0</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.14" justify="left" indent="6">1 Good & Evil Angel 2 House of Death</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.15" justify="left" indent="6">3 God <subst><del>Creating</del><add type="overwrite" place="inline">Judging</add></subst> Adam 4 Lamech __ 4.4.0</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.16" justify="left" indent="6">21 <choice><orig>Aug</orig><reg>August</reg></choice><hi rend="superscript">st</hi></l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.17" justify="left" indent="12">4 N<hi rend="superscript">os</hi> of Haleys Ballads ___ 0.10.0</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.18" justify="left" indent="6">7 <choice><orig>Sept<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></orig><reg>September</reg></choice></l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.19" justify="left" indent="16">4 Prints Viz<space extent="29"/>7<choice><orig>Sept<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></orig><reg>September</reg></choice></l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.20" justify="left" indent="6">1 Nebuchadnezzar 2 Newton<space extent="27"/>By d°_______________________4.4.0</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.22" justify="left" indent="6">3 God Creating Adam 4 Christ <add type="overwrite" place="inline">appearing</add> __ 4.4.0</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.23" justify="left" indent="4"><choice><orig>Dec<hi rend="superscript">. r</hi></orig><reg>December</reg></choice>12.</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.24" justify="left" indent="12">Touch<hi rend="superscript">g</hi> up Christ Baptizing _____ <hi rend="u">1.1.0</hi><space extent="40"/>_____</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.01.25" justify="left" indent="15">Should be 22.15.<space extent="9"/>£21.15.0<space extent="12"/>Should be £22.3<space extent="12"/>£21.3.0</l>
</lg>
</phystext>
</desc>
<desc id="bb134.6.ms.02" dbi="BB134.6.2.MS">
<objtitle>
<title type="transcribed">May-December 1805, page 2</title>
<title type="alt">Accounts between Blake and Thomas Butts, May-December 1805</title>,
<objid>
<objnumber code="A2">Object 2 </objnumber>
<objcode code="B6-2">(Bentley Receipt 6.2)</objcode>
</objid>
</objtitle>
<physdesc desclevel="brief">
<objsize>15.6 x 18.9 cm.</objsize>
<objnote>
<p>This receipt is written on both sides of a full sheet of paper and continued on a slip of paper attached by a wafer to the sheet. This object is the verso of the full sheet.</p>
<p>This receipt is partly written by Thomas Butts and partly written by Blake.</p>
</objnote>
<windowsize width="500" height="630"/>
</physdesc>
<phystext>
<lg justify="left">
<l n="bb134.6.ms.02.01" justify="left" indent="5">D.<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi>. Butts ______<space extent="38"/>C.<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.02.02" justify="left" indent="5">Bro:<hi rend="superscript">t</hi> over ___________ <space extent="5"/>£22.15 ._<space extent="10"/>Bro:<hi rend="superscript">t</hi> over ______ £22,,3. ___</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.02.03" justify="left" indent="6">Drawings &c <unclear type="2" extent="2" resp="OS"/> sent<space extent="24"/>Balance due from me</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.02.04" justify="left" indent="10">from Felpham___}<space extent="6"/>14,,14 <space extent="8"/>previous to my going
<note>Lines 3-4 are enclosed by a single bracket on the right.</note></l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.02.05" justify="left" indent="5">Urizen, Heaven &c <space extent="25"/>to Felpham _________<space extent="3"/>14,,10.8</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.02.06" justify="left" indent="7">& Songs of Experience —<space extent="16"/>By Coals to 5: <choice><orig>Octo.<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></orig><reg>October</reg></choice></l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.02.07" justify="left" indent="8">for balance__________ <space extent="2"/> — ,, 10.6</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.02.08" justify="left" indent="4">3 Hayleys Ballads <hi rend="u"><hi rend="superscript">+ Brother</hi></hi><space extent="5"/> — ,, 7. 6<space extent="11"/>1805 _________ }12,,19 —
<note>Lines 6-8 are enclosed by a single bracket on the right.</note></l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.02.09" justify="left" indent="4">3 Ditto<space extent="1"/>___ <space extent="1"/>M.<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Birch_____ <space extent="2"/> — ,, 7. 6</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.02.10" justify="left" indent="59">Balance paid</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.02.11" justify="left" indent="4">4<space extent="2"/>Ditto — _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _<space extent="3"/> — ,, 10.—<space extent="17"/>to M.<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Blake_ <hi rend="u">16.7.4.</hi><note>Bentley (*Blake Records*, page 766) reads "10.—" as "10.6".</note></l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.02.12" justify="left" indent="4">History of Mast.<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Malkin <space extent="7"/> — ,, 10.6</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.02.13" justify="left" indent="5"><choice><orig>Dec<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></orig><reg>December</reg></choice> 25. 1805</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.02.14" justify="left" indent="5">On Account of teaching your Son</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.02.15" justify="left" indent="6">at 25 Guineas per Annum<space extent="7"/>}26,,5,,0</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.02.16" justify="left" indent="8">to commence on this Day
<note>Bentley (*Blake Records*, page 766) reads "commence" as "Commence".</note>
<note>Lines 13-16 are enclosed by a single bracket on the right.</note></l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.02.17" justify="left" indent="36">_________</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.02.18" justify="left" indent="36"><hi rend="u">£ 66.0.0 _</hi><space extent="27"/><hi rend="u">£ 66.0.0</hi></l>
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<title type="transcribed">March 3 1806</title>
<title type="alt">Receipt, Thomas Butts, March 3 1806</title>,
<objid>
<objnumber code="A3">Object 3 </objnumber>
<objcode code="B6-3">(Bentley Receipt 6.3)</objcode>
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</objtitle>
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<objsize>7.8 x 20.0 cm.</objsize>
<objnote>
<p>This receipt is written on both sides of a full sheet of paper and continued on a slip of paper attached by a wafer to the sheet. This object is the slip of paper.</p>
<p>This receipt is partly written by Thomas Butts and partly written by Blake.</p>
<p>On the left of the receipt there is a revenue stamp embossed depicting a shield bearing the Union Flag and the motto “Dieu et Mon Droit”. Above the shield is a coronet and on the left and right sides
are sprigs of long, narrow leaves. Below the shield is the phrase “FOR RECEIPTS/FOUR PENCE”.</p>
<p>In the top right corner, the number "3" is inscribed in pencil in an unknown hand.</p>
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<l n="bb134.6.ms.03.01" justify="left" indent="15"><choice><orig>Recievd</orig><corr>Received</corr></choice> of M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Butts. March 3. 1806 the Sum of
<note>Keynes (*Letters*, page 114) reads "Recievd" as "Receiv'd".</note></l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.03.02" justify="left" indent="10">Sixteen Pounds Seven & Four pence Balance to this</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.03.03" justify="left" indent="12">Day as Per Annexed Account</l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.03.04" justify="left" indent="40">Will<hi rend="u">iam Blake</hi></l>
<l n="bb134.6.ms.03.05" justify="left" indent="6">£<hi rend="u">16.7.4 </hi></l>
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