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James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection 17614, Beinecke Library, Yale University. Extract
For permission to publish the text of MSS in their possession, the editors wish to thank the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the Bodleian Library Oxford University; the British Library; Boston Public Library; the Syndics of Cambridge University Library; the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge; Haverford College, Connecticut; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the Hornby Library, Liverpool Libraries and Information Services; the Houghton Library, Harvard University; the John Rylands Library, Manchester; the Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas; Luton Museum (Bedfordshire County Council); Massachusetts Historical Society; McGill University Library; the National Library of Scotland; the Newberry Library, Chicago; the New York Public Library (Pforzheimer Collections); the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; the Public Record Offices of Bedford, Suffolk (Bury St Edmunds) and Northumberland, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge; the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne; the Trustees of the William Salt Library, Stafford, the Wisbech and Fenland Museum; the University of Virginia Library.
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... As to the Farmers Boy & all future works of Mr Bloomfield I have done with them. Had the printer & publisher done me justice this would have sufficiently appeared in my postscript to the preface.
Mr Bloomfield has compelled me by a letter most unworthy of himself & me to renounce all correspondence & conversation with him for the future. And I have at length after 5 years plague & torment which he has been continually almost giving me done with him. It was time I should when he could say by leter that he suspected the character he had heard of me was false of my being a man of feeling & unwilling to give any one harm: and that if I came to town as I informed him I meant to do against Mr Fox’s funeral he was not in a train to see me and should do every thing in his power to avoid me.
I wrote an answer of about 3 lines renouncing of course all future correspondence & conversation with a clown who would so forget himself to me.
He took a months time and then yesterday I received a note from him in the Magazine Parcel just as if nothing had happened informing me of his tour in Kent & that since his return the printer had shown him my Postscript that he askd whether they had printed it and was told no.
I wish you to see the postscript and to judge whether after
repeated [illegible word]-tions 4 or 5 times within 5 years every one nearly as
bad as the letter from which I have given you a specimen, that postscript were
not necessary and whether it were not mild moderate & favourable. Be it
remembered with all this that mr Bloomfield never pretended to me any quarrel or
ground of quarrel with me but about the preface with which he seemd quite
content from the publication till after the 3rd edition
unless it be that I told him of 7 or 8 lines which are like any thing rather
than blank verse or any kind of verse which he chose to publish as a fragment
and which I wisht him to omit as disgracing several good verses of which these
were a part. May I request that if the Monthly Mirror & Ladies Magazine
are still sent thither they may be sent in future to Mr Ingram of Burys London booksellers Messrs
Longman & Co—They
will thus reach me much more conveniently & earlier....