Aug. 11. 1885
Dear Dr Stoker,
I owe you many apologies for my long possession of the Blakes. They gave me great pleasure. You should
have had them sooner but that I was away from Dublin, & didn’t like to trust them out of my own hands.
I go away again in a few
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days but shall be back within a month. I hope you will some time, when you are in this neighbourhood, look
in to see my Blake’s “Canterbury Pilgrims”, & his Dante illustrations which are of the date of the Book of Job
but far inferior I think. Very truly yours
E.

Dowden.