English poet, surgeon, and clergyman (1754-1832) known for his early use of the realistic narrative form and his descriptions of middle and working-class life and people. ALS signed “Geo. Crabbe,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 7.25 x 9, June 27, 1829. Handwritten letter to Rev. J. W. Crabbe, evidently referring to James Thom's statues of characters from the poem 'Tam o' Shanter' by Robert Burns. In part: "I have been to Town, & seen Tam o' Shanter and Souter Johnny: It is certainly an extraordinary, as well as lucky Hit: but judging only from my own feeling, Tam is too old, with an open-mouthed Feebleness…he does not look as if he could sit his Maggie to the Keystone of the Bridge: The Cobbler is excellent, & the mixture or Mirth & Conceit (for having told so good a story) make his, as I think, the preferable Figure." In fine condition.
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