BIB_ID
403385
Accession number
MA 8917.30
Creator
Boyd, Hugh Stuart, 1781-1848.
Display Date
[1843 February 22].
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 18.6 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Date of writing determined from the postmark and internal evidence: the letter is postmarked February 24, 1843 and Boyd gives the date of writing as "Wednesday Evening", which would have been the 22nd. No place of writing is given but Boyd was known to be living in London at that time and there is a Hampstead postmark on the letter. See the published editions of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Addressed to: "Miss Barrett/ 50. Wimpole Street/ London."
Boyd was blind; the letter is in the hand of an amanuensis.
Addressed to: "Miss Barrett/ 50. Wimpole Street/ London."
Boyd was blind; the letter is in the hand of an amanuensis.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Acknowledging receipt of five of her poems, but telling her that he does not like them nor, for the most part, does he understand them; praising a line in one of the sonnets; mentioning that he liked a review of her work in Graham's Magazine; addressing EBB in the third person: "I trust, that she will merely despise, and not be annoyed by what must appear to her, extraordinary stupidity"; telling her that she is mistaken to think that he no longer likes the work of Ossian as much as he once did, and that he hopes to write to her about Ossian again.
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