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Manuscripts
Amelia Opie letter to Thomas John Alderson
- Description
Letter contains two small stanzas: "But wit may lure & beauty smile…"
- Date
- 1815 November 4
- 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.
