GODWIN DIARY: Heath (& Blake) at theatre 14.11.1805
see my entry for Blake, Arthur to whom the above entry is coded on GD website. More likely to have been William Blake DNB 1757-1827, Heath was a friend and fellow-engraver.
SWEDENBORGIANS: William Blake and his wife Catherine were among the 18 who signed the 1788 Swedenborgian New Church Conference along with the 77 printed names.
GREATER SOHO: see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset
William Blake 28 Poland St ratebooks Xmas 1785-1790
CRABB ROBINSON DIARY:
The journal of John Linnell (DNB 1792-1882) 6.8.1825 "to Mrs Aders 11 Euston Square with Mr Blake"
8.8.1825 "to Mrs Aders 11 Euston Square with S Palmer"
10.12.1825 "dine at Mr Aders with Blake & H C Robinson"
HCR diary 10.12.1825 "Dined with Aders - a very remarkable and interesting evening - The party Blake the painter and Linnell also a painter and engraver - to dinner - In the evening came Miss Denman and Miss Flaxman"
30.1.1826 "a call on Mrs Aders and a long chat about Blake & Linnell"
18.2.1826 "called on Blake"
11.5.1826 called on Blake
12.5.1826 HCR had guests to supper "Flaxmans, Masqueriers, a miss Forbes, Blake, Sutton Sharpe"
13.6.1826 called early on Blake "from the Bible he has learned that Eine Gemeinschaft der Frauen stat finden sollte - when I objected that Ehestand seems to be a divine institution he referred to the Bible 'that from the beginning it was not so' he talked as usal of the spirits - asserted that he had committed many murders - that reason is the only evil or sin - and that careless gay people are better than those who think etc etc etc"
2.2.1827 "Gotzenberger the young painter from Germany called on me and I accompanied him to Blake - We looked over Blake's Dante. Gotzenberger seemed highly gratified by the designs and Mrs Aders says G: considers B: as the first and Flaxman as the second man he has seen in England. The conversation was slight - I was interpreter between them and nothing remarkable was said by Blake - he was interested apparently by Gotzenberger"
I also have a note Blake day of Flaxman's death 8.12.1826 Sintram by Fouqué
William Blake (DNB 1757-1827). Jakob Götzenberger (1802-1866) wikipedia. Samuel Palmer (DNB 1805-1881)
Eine Gemeinschaft der Frauen stat finden sollte = women should be held in common / Ehestand = marriage. Robinson used German for what he wouldn't want servants to see, shorthand for possibly scandalous gossip
for info on Blake see keridavies.blogspot.com