Manuscripts
"I have seen, lucky me, what you all want to see…:" song
- Description
Title from first line of song. The text of this song is very close to the published version "Alexander in London. By J. Smith, Esq.;" with small differences to the published version including the order of the verses.
- Date
- approximately 1821
- Call number
- mssOpie
- Provenance
- Purchased for the Huntington from Dean Cooke Rare Books Ltd by the Library Collectors' Council, March 2021. Amelia Opie bequeathed her manuscripts to her friend Thomas Brightwell. The material later came into the possession of Ethel I. Carr, who was related to Amelia Opie via the Briggs family; Eliza Alderson Briggs and her husband, Henry Perronet Briggs were cousins of Opie. It was through their daughter Eliza, who had married the Rev. J. H. Carr, that the papers came into the Carr family, and thus to Ethel I. Carr. Upon Ethel's death in 1953, the material passed to her nephew who put them up for sale at Sotheby's.
