BLOOMFIELD, Robert (1766-1823). Two autograph letters, the first signed ('Rob Bloomfield') to Thomas Hill, City Road, 27 November, postmarked 1801, referring to a dispute with 'Mr Lofft' [Capell Lofft] 'my original and staunch friend' and explaining, 'The infalible result of any inovation now made in "The Farmer's Boy" would infix in the mind of Mr L the deepest and the most rooted dislike to me', one page, 4to; the second signed ('R Bloomfield') to Mr. Inskip, n.p., 17 May 1814; together with a manuscript of a poem signed ('Robert Bloomfield') to Mr. Palmer, 7 December 1802; an autograph letter signed by T[homas] Clark, relating to Bloomfield, 'the sale of his poems is unprecedented', n.d.; a shoemaker's trade card (laid down); and a portrait engraving. (5)