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Notes

 
[1]

A.L.S., John Murray to George Crabbe, Jr. (Yale, Hilles Collection), 28 February 1833; A.L., Thomas Moore to George Crabbe, Jr. (Leeds, Brotherton Collection), 5 October 1833; Rene Huchon, George Crabbe and His Times 1754-1832, tr. Frederick Clarke (1907), p. 429n.3. The following abbreviations are used in references to A.L.S.'s given in the text and in subsequent notes: ELC (Elizabeth Leadbeater Cole), GCJ (George Crabbe, Jr.), JC (John Crabbe), JGL (John Gibson Lockhart), TM (Thomas Moore), JM (John Murray), SR (Samuel Rogers), JW (John Wright); Bodleian (Bodleian Library, MS. Don. d. 16), B.L. (British Library, MS. Egerton 3709A), Leeds (Leeds University, Brotherton Collection), Murray (Murray Archives, MS. Letter Book), N.L.S. (National Library of Scotland, MS. 934), Yale, Hilles (Yale, Hilles Collection), Yale, Osborn (Yale, Osborn Collection).

[2]

Information on the Prospectus was supplied by the late Mr. K. Povey, formerly Librarian of the University of Liverpool Library, and made available to me by Lady Norma Dalrymple-Champneys.

[3]

A.L.S., GCJ to William Lisle Bowles, 11 November 1833, printed in Garland Greever, ed., A Wiltshire Parson and His Friends: The Correspondence of William Lisle Bowles (1926), pp. 80-81; A.L.S., GCJ to TM (Bodleian, fol. 131), [November 1833].

[4]

Life of George Crabbe, pp. 265-270 (Moore), pp. 300-302 (Baillie), p. 270 (Bowles), pp. 276-281 (Lockhart).

[5]

A.L.S.'s, Sarah Hoare to GCJ (Leeds), 18 Feb. 1832, 5 May 1832, 31 Dec. 183[2], 29 May 1833; A.L.S.'s, Sarah Hoare to JC (Leeds), 11 Feb. 1832, 22 Feb. [1832], 30 April 1832.

[6]

Life, pp. 296-297. The fulsome and extravagant tone of the passage is quite like that of her letters to Crabbe's sons, for example those listed in note 5 above.

[7]

"The Murray Reprints of Crabbe: A Publisher's Record," Studies In Bibliography, 4 (1952): 192-199.