ALS to "Dear Sir"; Birmingham, 1802 May 7.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

ALS to "Dear Sir"; Birmingham, 1802 May 7.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702177148

Letter concerning final production and critical reception of "The Poor; or, Bread. A Poem", written on "title-page paper" (a printed sheet containing the title page text on recto of one leaf, and "Critiques of the poem" on verso of the other). Pratt suggests that the recipient may wish to order a copy of the work from the publisher.

1 v. (2 p.) ; 26 x 19 cm.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8025123

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

Pratt, Mr. (Samuel Jackson), 1749-1814

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w680522x (person)

Samuel Jackson Pratt abandoned his clerical career to become successively an actor, a bookseller, a dramatist, and finally a prolific poet and novelist whose best-known productions were the poem Sympathy and a translation of The Sorrows of Werther. The collection also contains "The Linnets," a sentimental fable by Pratt, and a copy of a poem, "On Mrs. Provis leaving Bath the day after Keppel's Arrival." From the description of Pratt papers, 1779. (Unknown). W...