BIB_ID
128638
Accession number
MA 3075
Creator
Barker, Thomas, 1769-1847.
Display Date
[1805 or later] May 15.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund as the gift of Mr. & Mrs. Claus von Bülow, 1975.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 23.4 x 19.1 cm
Notes
Barker does not give a year of writing, but the paper has an 1805 watermark.
Written from "Sion Hill."
Based on the reference to a "Poem of Sympathy" in the letter, Barker's correspondent may be the poet Samuel Jackson Pratt, who wrote a poem with that title.
Docketed.
Written from "Sion Hill."
Based on the reference to a "Poem of Sympathy" in the letter, Barker's correspondent may be the poet Samuel Jackson Pratt, who wrote a poem with that title.
Docketed.
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer Paul Grinke, Spring 1976 catalog, #12.
Summary
Enclosing a design for the Poem of Sympathy (not with the letter); adding that he is on the point of leaving Bath to spend several weeks in the country; asking Pratt to send him a line confirming that he received the drawing and giving his address as Didmarton, Gloucestershire.
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