Book 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.