BIB_ID
106943
Accession number
MA 9905
Creator
Crabbe, George, 1754-1832.
Display Date
Parham, England, 1796 May 9.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 22.7 x 18.0 cm
Notes
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume of Boswell's Life of Johnson, v. 4, p. 216.
The identity of the recipient is inferred from the reference to "Mrs. Robinson" and from a footnote 3 on page 61 of Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe edited by Thomas C. Faulkner (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985) which says "Several times in letters (unpublished) to John Robinson, his tenant farmer at West Allington, GC alludes to his troubles with curates..." It is possible this letter was written to John Robinson.
The identity of the recipient is inferred from the reference to "Mrs. Robinson" and from a footnote 3 on page 61 of Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe edited by Thomas C. Faulkner (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985) which says "Several times in letters (unpublished) to John Robinson, his tenant farmer at West Allington, GC alludes to his troubles with curates..." It is possible this letter was written to John Robinson.
Summary
Saying he is happy to hear that he and Mrs. Robinson are in good health "...but Mrs. Crabbe is not at this Time well enough either to travel herself or for me to leave her. She desires with me, her respects & best wishes. I find there is talk of regulations among the Curates. I am a Curate myself and have nothing to apprehend respecting a general & equal Advance, but no man likes to be particularly singled out for an Example. Pray remember me to your neighbours."
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