BIB_ID
128573
Accession number
MA 8878
Creator
Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825.
Display Date
[1808] August.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.2 x 19.1 cm
Notes
Address panel, with Derby postmark and the following address: "R.N. French Esq/ Seckington/ Tamworth/ Warwickshire". Also on the panel: "By favour of Miss Laurence."
Written in the third person.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791); PML 9812-9815; volume II, page 235.
The year of writing is not given, but Reverend R.N. French published a volume of his verses in Derby in 1808.
Written in the third person.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791); PML 9812-9815; volume II, page 235.
The year of writing is not given, but Reverend R.N. French published a volume of his verses in Derby in 1808.
Summary
Thanking him for a copy of his Poems and the compliments conveyed in his letter: "She is flattered to hear that any thing she has written is remembered by him with pleasure, or has had a happy effect on his mind."
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