BIB_ID
403383
Accession number
MA 8917.29
Creator
Boyd, Hugh Stuart, 1781-1848.
Display Date
[1843 February 8].
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.6 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Date of writing estimated from the postmark. No place of writing is given but Boyd was known to be living in London at that time. See the published editions of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Addressed to: "Miss Barrett/ 50, Wimpole Street/ London."
Boyd was blind; this letter is in the hands of two amanuenses.
Addressed to: "Miss Barrett/ 50, Wimpole Street/ London."
Boyd was blind; this letter is in the hands of two amanuenses.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Conceding that much of what she says about Ossian appears to be true (see previous letters MA 8917.26-28), but arguing certain points; discussing passages from the Bible in terms of their poetic qualities; quoting from Genesis and the Apocrypha; writing that he is glad that American readers have responded so warmly to EBB's poems and that, on her last visit to him, Arabella told him that the poem "The Cry of the Human" had been particularly admired; asking if EBB would send him a copy of it.
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