Letter from George Crabbe, Trowbridge, to his son, the Rev. George Crabbe, 1828 March 1 : autograph manuscript signed.

Hoping he will be well enough to accept his invitation to visit and relating the details of the health and his schedule; saying "It is not that the Pain in my Face has returned again, for that I can bear & can apply my Remedies at Pucklechurch as well as at Trowbridge, nay better, but it is that I am obliged to be attentive to other Disorders which compel me to regularity & sometimes to Abstinence; Still your House is one that I should not feel otherwise than at Home in, if It were not for Company : Even our Friend Bowles will require of me that Conformity which I know not how to exhibit and I have a previous Engagement at Devizes on account of the General Friendly Societies to which meeting a Letter from Mr. Fisher - I suppose the Secretary - strongly urges me to go & there will be our Sessions so that I dread these Exertions like a Valetudinarian & perhaps like one of that Class shall bear them with more Ease than I expect. They all here tell me that I look, not merely as well, but even better than I did when your Brother went into Suffolk and if the Judgment of Other people could prevail over my Own, I should be quite hearty and Well;" relating news of friends, family and his church duties; adding "I want very much to overlook my writings of all kinds but especially the Versifications & to select & destroy(?) as my Judgment - now impartial - may direct me & I often say to myself, if deferred now, can I reasonably expect more Leisure or even great Inclination. I must spur up myself for the Task;" relating more news of family and of his Passion Week duties.