Robert Bloomfield manuscript material

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{"value"=>"19447", "type"=>"local_mss"}

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{"value"=>"Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"Robert Bloomfield manuscript material"}

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{"value"=>"1802-1820?", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"questionable", "normal"=>"1802/1820"}

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{"value"=>"Pforz MS", "type"=>"local_call"}

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{"value"=>"<p>· Holograph poem, \"Lucy, a Song\" : [ca. 1808] : (MISC 3755) : 1 page (single sheet) : begins, \"Thy favorite Bird is soaring still, / My Lucy haste thee o'er the dale ...\"; dated \"1808\" in the hand of Thomas Clio Rickman, with his autograph attestation: \"Bob Bloomfield's handwriting / the Poet -- & a song of his / Clio.\".</p><p>· Autograph signature : [1820?] : (MISC 4219) : [no place] : reads, \"Robt Bloomfield\"; clipped and mounted to the front paste-down of Pforzheimer copy 2 of the second edition of John Clare's Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (London: Taylor and Hessey, 1820). Shelved with books under \"Clare.\".</p><p>· To Catherine Bloomfield, his sister : 1 autograph letter signed : 31 Jan 1802 : (MISC 0371) : 2 ¹/₈ page (double sheet) : no place : on his success and responsibilities; begins, \"The first thing I tell you, for fear I forget it, is that [?] lives 'at No. 16 Daggers Court, Broker Row, Moorfields, London' ...\".</p><p>· To Elizabeth Manby Glover, his mother : 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Dec 1804 : (MISC 0370) : 1 page (single sheet) : from City Road, London : begins, \"This Eight and Thirtieth birthday, I am still alive and moderately happy ...\".</p><p>· To Thomas Hill, book collector : 1 autograph letter signed : 28 Mar 1812 : (MISC 4220) : 1 page (single sheet) : from City Road : begins, \"On waiting upon Mr Park I found him imprest with the same idea with yourself, and he proposed calling immediately on Mr Longman ...\".</p><p>· To William Tooke, Jr., lawyer and promoter of arts and literature : 1 autograph letter signed : 7 May 1802 : (MISC 3572) : 1 page (single sheet) : from City Road : begins, \"Since I had the pleasure of seeing you here I have had full exercise for my philosophy, and far from commencing Stoic, I am confirmed in my belief that pain is an inconvenience ...\".</p>"}

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date_inclusive_start

1802

date_inclusive_end

1820

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1802

extent_statement

6 items

prefercite

{"value"=>"Robert Bloomfield manuscript material : 6 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

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{"value"=>"Robert Bloomfield, English poet. · Holograph poem, \"Lucy, a Song\" : [ca. 1808] : (MISC 3755) : 1 page (single sheet) : begins, \"Thy favorite Bird is soaring still, / My Lucy haste thee o'er the dale ...\"; dated \"1808\" in the hand of Thomas Clio Rickman, with his autograph attestation: \"Bob Bloomfield's handwriting / the Poet -- a song of his / Clio.\".", "generated"=>true}

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1802

date_end

1820

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