BIB_ID
396187
Accession number
MA 13386.3
Creator
Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823.
Display Date
1806 March 11.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 22.3 x 18.7 cm
Notes
Postmarked and addressed, "Mrs Loyd [sic] Baker / Wm Sharp Esq / Fulham Bridge."
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Regretting that he will likely be too busy to visit her at Fulham; noting that he has sent a half dozen copies of a book to her "dear friend at Clare Hall"; expressing his appreciation for her "drawing of the boy" and thanking her for her kind opinion of "Old Gilbert" (a reference to his poem "The broken crutch. A tale") and noting that "Dr Drake of Hadleigh in Suffolk has given by letter encomiums of no common kind, and the vanity of your humble servant is a little upon the alert".
Catalog link
Department