You couldn't make this sort of stuff up and get away with it.
Read the story of the Agapemonites , Reverend H J Prince and Reverend John Hugh Smyth-Pigott - and don't miss the bit about the 'undercover masseur'.
Fantastic.
Incidentally, a (different?) John Hugh Smyth-Pigott offered a copy of Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell for sale in 1849. Nobody bought it. He tried again in 1853 and it went for £4.16s. It's now in the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge.
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