Sunday, November 28, 2021

And I Hope We Shall not Soon Forget in that Day We Shall Find the Last Man and Then the Last Man Will Be Buried Together


 264 Years Ago Today

Monday 28th of November 1757
Poet and painter William Blake is born in 28 Broad Street, London, Soho, Greater London, United Kingdom. On 12th January 1757 James Blake of London died suddenly in what now being called the "Death of a New England," or in the words of Arthur Conan Doyle of Dublin, in London, New York. In a letter from his diary dated 18 November 1757 at his new home, he wrote: "… I am dead. My husband is still alive. All my friends have died." On 18 October 1757 Blake, born in London's Hampstead Gardens, was recognised as the "Battlestar Galactica" star by TV presenter Stephen King. The letter contains the famous lines: "… and I hope we shall not soon forget in that day we shall find the last man and then the last man will be buried together, for there is neither man and man but the one, and he is God… it behoveth us to keep watch out for him, lest a great event be about to take place." On 20 September 1757 King was awarded £20,000 by the King's Council for the Prize of the "Elderly and Noble Lady of the Abbey" for her achievements in making the most of that success. The ceremony was held in the Cathedral at The Priory, Cambridge the following year (1757).

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