Autograph letter signed : London, to S.J. Pratt, 1811 May 2.
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Godwin, William, 1756-1836
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Pratt, Mr. (Samuel Jackson), 1749-1814
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Samuel Jackson Pratt abandoned his clerical career to become successively an actor, a bookseller, a dramatist, and finally a prolific poet and novelist whose best-known productions were the poem Sympathy and a translation of The Sorrows of Werther. The collection also contains "The Linnets," a sentimental fable by Pratt, and a copy of a poem, "On Mrs. Provis leaving Bath the day after Keppel's Arrival." From the description of Pratt papers, 1779. (Unknown). W...
