9. Unidentified bookseller [? William Lane] to Robert Bloomfield, 22 June 1798 * 


Mr. *****'s compliments to Mr. Bloomfield, and is much obliged to him for the offer of his manuscript; but as poetry is quite out of his line, he begs leave to decline it.

22d June, 1798

Notes

* BL Add. MS 28266, f. 88 (copy); published in 1809, as accompanying the Farmer's Boy MS, p. xxv BACK


Bloomfield Letters / Letter 9