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Leaf 18, 1810 January 29
Collection Overview
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
ANDERSON (Robert) (1760-1830), literary scholar and biographer, editor of A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain (1792-5). ALS to R. H. Cromek. Dated 29 January 1810. Four pages. Quarto. Quoting extensively from a letter to him by Ramsay on the subject of an article he had published anonymously on Burns in The Bee in which Ramsay praised Cromek for his industry in collecting the materials. Implying, however, that Burns could be subjected to too much exposure."Everything may be carried too far." Anderson himself closes, thanking Cromek:"I am quite delighted with the success of your poetical tour, and impatient to see your collection."
Collection History
- Custodial History
By descent from T. H. Cromek. T. H. Cromek's daughter married John Warrington of Newland Hall, Wakefield. He was the father of Austin Warrington, whose son Paul Warrington inherited the Cromek archive and left the archive on his death to his wife, Jeanne Warrington, in 1992, who in turn left the archive to R. H. Cromek's great-great-great grandson Ian Warrington on her death in 2007, who sold the archive at Sothebys London in July 2008.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by John Delaney on April 6, 2009. Finding aid coded by John Delaney on April 7-8, 2009, based on the descriptions of John Hart and Chris Johnson.
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- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
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- Credit this material:
Leaf 18; Robert and Thomas Hartley Cromek papers, C1313, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
Find More
- Bibliography
See Dennis M. Read's R. H. Cromek, Engraver, Editor, and Entrepreneur (Ashgate, 2011) for more information about Cromek and these papers.
- Names:
- Bewick, Thomas (1753-1828)
Cromek, R. H. (Robert Hartley) (1770-1812)
Pye, John (1782-1874)
