Manuscripts

"Is there a joy I must not know…:" poem

Description: Title from first line of poem.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1817
Call number: mssOpie
Creator: Opie, Amelia (1769-1853)(Opens in new tab)
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.
Associated people: Briggs, Catharina M. (1792-1844.); Briggs, Elizabeth Alderson. (1796-1889.); Briggs, Henry Perronet, (1775-1839.); Carr, Hilda Mary.; Carr, James Haslewood.; Denny, Edward,; Smith, James,
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