BIB_ID
106707
Accession number
MA 3566
Creator
Croker, John Wilson, 1780-1857.
Display Date
West Molesey, England, 1834?.
Credit line
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund, 1981.
Description
1 item (5 pages) ; 19.6 x 12.2 and 24.3 x 19.5 cm
Notes
Croker gives the place of writing as "Molesey" (referring to West Molesey) and the date of writing only as "Sunday." Based on the possible reference to Hampden in the Nineteenth Century in the letter, it may have been written in 1834, the year that work was published.
Provenance
Purchased from Ximenes Rare Books on April 7, 1981.
Summary
Chiding him for being "stupid" in not sending information about how George Crabbe's son should be addressed; saying he will bring the letter up on Tuesday and get the information from Murray then; commenting disparagingly on a book that Murray has sent him, possibly John Minter Morgan's Hampden in the Nineteenth Century; mentioning that a letter may be left for him at Murray's house and asking that it be forwarded; questioning the inspiration for the town in Crabbe's The Borough: "Aldbro' was not 'the Borough.' Touches & points Crabbe no doubt took from it - but the descriptive parts have no resemblance to the realities of Aldbro' - I suspect that Yarmouth or some of the larger towns on the west supplied the chief outlines;" describing Aldeburgh as "one long wide, straggling, airy, rural street where the sea is hardly visible, & even boats & nets are of rare occurrence;" saying that he will call at Albemarle Street around noon on Tuesday.
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