7. Unidentified bookseller [? William
Bent] to Robert Bloomfield, before 21 June 1798*
(Extract)
... The Farmer's boy may afford pleasure to the person for whom it is intended; but it cannot be expected that any stranger should give his opinion of such a literary performance to the author.
Notes
* BL Add. MS 28266, f. 87 (copy); published in 1809, as accompanying the Farmer's Boy MS, p. xxiv BACK