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Sender: Barton, Bernard
Recipient: Crabbe, George
Letters: 1
Date(s): [10 Feb] 1845
Location: BC MS 19c Barton
Note: Charges recipient facetiously with pride and consequent neglect to visit the writer, and exacts a note every day or two and a visit once a week. Confesses to pride in his latest book. Dated 10 February 1845. Initialled. On the back is a facetious third-person note by Edward Fitzgerald (son-in-law to the writer) to George Crabbe, junior, supporting the writer's letter. With two copies of typed transcript of both. Quarto; 3 of 4pp.
Sender: Crabbe, George
Recipient: Charter, Elizabeth
Letters: 1
Date(s): Nov 1816
Location: BC MS 19c Crabbe 3. Mounted and bound in volume lettered "George Crabbe. Holograph Letter, 1816"
Note: Hopes her long silence is not due to illness or anger with him. Begs her to write and remove his doubts. Mentions the riots at Trowbridge and the fire at Belvoir Castle which destroyed the Duke of Rutland's pictures. Hopes to see her at Bath at Christmas. Address on p.4. Seal attached.
Sender: Scott, Sir Walter
Recipient: Crabbe, George
Letters: 1
Date(s): 21 Oct [1812]
Location: BC MS 19c SCOTT
Note: Thanks for letter. Recalls finding 20 years ago extracts from Crabbe's "Village" and "Library" in Dosley. Hopes to send him a new verse publication; has brought up his children on Crabbe; hopes to visit and be visited. Original and typed TS. Published in Scott, "Some Unpublished Letters", ed. J.A. Symington, 1932.
Sender: Crabbe, George
Recipient: Crabbe, George, junior
Letters: 1
Date(s): 9 May 1823
Location: BC MS 19c Crabbe 1.
Note: Letter commenting on a visit to Bath, dinner with Minister R Wright, and Crabbe's thoughts on the Trowbridge Controversy concerning Wright's Pamphlet 'The Trinitarian and the Unitarian' and Mr B. Kent's 'Familiar Dialogue between a Calvinist, a Socinian and an Infidel'.
Signature cut away.