Autograph letter from George Crabbe to Elizabeth Charter, dated November 1816, with related material.
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Autograph letter from George Crabbe to Elizabeth Charter, dated November 1816, with related material.
Classmark: BC MS 19c Crabbe 3
Creator(s): Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date(s): c.1816
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 vol. (7 ff.); manuscript, portrait, and an engraving.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/8615
Description
Comprises an autograph letter from George Crabbe to Elizabeth Charter, headed 'Trowbridge, Nov. 1816', an engraved portrait and bust of Crabbe, and a further engraving of the thatched house in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, in which Crabbe was born. In the letter Crabbe hopes her long silence is not due to illness or anger with him. He begs her to write and remove his doubts, then mentions the riots at Trowbridge and the fire at Belvoir Castle which destroyed the Duke of Rutland's pictures, and finally hopes to see her at Bath at Christmas.
The quarto volume is bound in medium brown morocco with gold-tooled lines around the edges and gilt lettering on the front cover and spine which reads respectively 'George Crabbe/ Holograph Letter/ 1816' and 'Crabbe'. Dark green paper is used for both inside covers and endpapers. The letter has an attached seal.
Biography or history
George Crabbe (1754-1832), the poet, clergyman, and writer. For fuller details of his life and achievements see the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Provenance
Formerly owned by A.M. Broadley.
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