BIB_ID
193154
Accession number
MA 4264
Creator
Dyer, John, 1700?-1758.
Display Date
Higham on the Hill, England, 1739 September 5.
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Purchased as the gift of Richard B. Fisher and F. Tracy Pennoyer Schilling (Mrs. August H. Schilling), 1984.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 19.8 x 16 cm
Notes
On the verso, Dyer addresses the letter thus: "Direct to him, at Mr Harpers / in Nun-Eaton near Coventry."
Dyer gives the place of writing as "Higham near N. Eaton [for Nuneaton]."
Dyer gives the place of writing as "Higham near N. Eaton [for Nuneaton]."
Provenance
Purchased at Sotheby London, 6-7 December 1984, lot 41.
Summary
Thanking his correspondent and Mr. Edwards for their "Criticisms Solicitations & trouble" over "a certain Poem" (possibly The Ruins of Rome, published in 1740); apologizing and saying that he has a "vicious memory" and should have thanked them in earlier letters; adding "Time was that your Friend had too much Pride to Suffer any Publication of his crude verses - but he now desires it and has Sad good reasons to do so - My Views indeed are humbler yet not meaner & therefore (in a simple mistake) the Poem was desired back;" explaining that his mind has been occupied by many other things, "by my new Plantation here - by Building, removing, and rocking the cradle of a crying Infant in the fresh fears & pleasures of a new made Father."
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