In a letter to Flaxman a little later, he says, "Felpham is a sweet place for study, because it is more spiritual than London.

Heaven opens here on all sides its golden gates; the windows are not obstructed by vapours; voices of celestial inhabitants are more distinctly heard, their forms more distinctly seen; and my cottage is also a shadow of their houses." Beside the sea Blake communed with the spirits of Dante and Homer, Milton and the Hebrew Prophets.
Blake's sojourn at Felpham ended in 1803.

A grotesque and annoying incident marred its close, the story of which, as told by the poet in a letter to Mr.Butler, certainly belongs to the history of Sussex.

It should, however, first be stated that an ex-soldier in the Royal Dragoons, named John Scholfield, had accused Blake of uttering seditious words.

The letter runs:--"His enmity arises from my having turned him out of my garden, into which he was invited as an assistant by a gardener at work therein, without my knowledge that he was so invited.