BIB_ID
394395
Accession number
MA 13233
Creator
Barton, Bernard, 1784-1849.
Display Date
1845 Jun. 28.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Possibly addressed to Barton's publisher, George Virtue, who was also the publisher of J. Stirling Coyne's The scenery and antiquities of Ireland, which is referred to in the letters opening sentence.
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Evidently addressed to a collaborator or publisher concerning the engraving of some illustrations by J.C. Bentley ("If Bentley does our two little Suffolk sketches as well as he has done The Meeting of the Waters in your Ireland, I for one shall be well content - and will give him a laudatory sonnet."); his "rediscovery" of his poem "A child's dream" for inclusion, along with his "Colloquy", in a previously published volume of verse (probably his Household words, which was issued in 1845 by George Virtue), ("I am pleased Roberts and thyself were so well pleased with the Colloquy - But I stumbled only yesterday on a still greater old favorite of mine, written I should think, near twenty years ago, but unaccountably forgotten by me ..."); and stating his intention to ask the recipient for financial assistance at some time in the near future.
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