Bury St. Edmunds, June 26, 1824
Sir,
I thank you for the kind letter I received, dated the 20th. When
I wrote to you last, I feared lest I should tire you with my prolixity, yet I
left much unsaid that I think I had a right to state, as my dear brother's
character is now to be brought forward before the dread tribunal of his fellow
mortals.
I confined myself in my last to observations which appeared in
the article in the Monthly Magazine, for September, 1823; and I wish farther to
observe, that whoever reads it would be led to think my brother was a boorish,
headstrong fellow—whereas those who knew him in his youth can witness to his
modest unassuming manners; and I solemnly declare, as I hope for mercy at the
great day, I never heard of the tale about 'sticking to his last' till I read it
in the Monthly Magazine. In the days—the happy days that Robert and I spent in
free converse, it is impossible for him not, at some time, to have mentioned
it.
Yours, &c.
G. Bloomfield
Address: Mr. Weston, / London