Sowed my Anemonie & Bath Polyanthus seed—lent Mrs Fanny Knowlton Bloomfields Hazlewood Hill & Remains & Aytons Essays—Got a look at Giblead of Spaldings Alworth Abbey & I never saw such a heap of unrational absurdities & ridiculous attempts at wit & Satire strung together in my reading existance
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From Monday, 6th Sept 1824 until Sunday, 11th Sept 1825, Clare kept a Journal. Here is Ronnie Blythe on the subject... "I am writing about the more or less penniless John Clare, whose publishers have sent him a dateless 'Student’s Journal' in which they hope he will make notes for a natural history book... It has no printed dates; so Clare can start it in September".
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