Letter from Edward A. Freeman, Dursley, to Henry Thompson, 1850 January 28 : autograph manuscript signed.

Informing him of the birth of his son on January 15, 1850; remarking on the work of some of his fellow contributors to Thompson's anthology, Original ballads by living authors (London : Joseph Masters, 1850), referring to [R.W.] Huntley's verses as "such awful twaddle" and describing the work of [J.M.] Neale as "like everything else he writes, full of spirit and vigour, but without any taste; remarking that the publisher Masters has "shown a little more wit" in distributing and advertising Thompson's book than he did with Freeman's "History of architecture", and repeating his complaint that a single copy is "very poor remuneration" for the nine ballads be contributed to the anthology; writing that "Of course Denison was fierce against Modern History" and that the "outrageous folly and impudence" of a letter he wrote "drew many people to vote the other way ... and so turned the scale against", adding that "I regard him, Masters and Diodorus as constituting the great triad of fools."; proposing to write to the "Globe & Chronicle" to counter "Denison's frenzy" in order to let "rational people on the other side know that rational people on ours had nothing to do with the blockhead."