'A relish for hedge-row poetry': A Newly Discovered Letter from Robert Bloomfield to Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges

In the new letter, quoted in full below, Bloomfield reminds Brydges of the attentions one have formerly bestow'd upon them. While little is known of Bloomfield's association with Brydges, it is clear that between 1809 and 1817 the poet benefited from Brydges' scholarship and benevolence. On 25 Mar 1809 Bloomfield enclosed in a letter to his friend Mary Lloyd Baker his daughter Hannah's transcription of a Scots ballad The Continuation of Auld Robin Gray.