As Mr H: has taken the Liberty to recommend and the Countess
of Partarlington has had the goodness to permit Mr. Blake to wait
on her Ladyship to shew some of his designs. MrH: conceives it
cannot be improper to signify to her Ladyship, that the drawings w:ch
Mr. Blake will bring are the sole & exclusive property of a private
gentleman who has purchas'd them for his own amusement and Instruction -

Mr. B. is an artist of great original powers and of uncommon Merit
in his Inventions, in w:ch Line he is perhaps unequal'd among the Br.
Artists.

Mr.B. is a married man but without a Family & his wife is a
virtuous, & singularly amiable woman, & they have passed their lives
together with so scanty an Income as scarcely to have afford[ed]
them a means of subsistence -

Mr H: sole motive for wishing to make him known to Lady Partar-
lington, was to introduce to her Ladyship Mr. Blakes neglected merits
and almost unexampled difficulties & perseverance with a hope that
among L[P: extensive and powerful friend[s], some may be found who
will be sensible of his Merit, and who will be willing to assist
in supporting and encouraging so extraordinary a man It may
perhaps not be unnecessary to add that Mr.B. has at present a
number of commissions, that afford him a sustenance, to [live]
upon the narrowest state -