Campbell, Thomas

18 four-line stanzas, including two cancelled stanzas, substantially different from the published text, 5 pages, 4to and 8vo, dated 5 May 1819; [with:] a group of seven letters to Campbell, by Thomas Moore (reluctantly rejecting a proposed editorial collaboration on the basis of his own laziness), Thomas Telford (2), Joanna Baillie (on translations of Klopstock's Messiah), R.L. Edgeworth (sending a copy of Maria Edgeworth's Patronage), Francis Jeffrey, and James Smith, 12 pages, 4to and 8vo, with two address wrappers and two invitation cards, 1810-1830; [also with:] Thomas Campbell, autograph letter signed, to Stevenson, on financial affairs, 1 page, 4to, 28 May 1806; altogether 13 items, professionally conserved and strengthened

A significant group of papers relating to the poet Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), including an early draft of his widely reprinted ode 'To The Rainbow'.