Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Dawson Turner, [Yarmouth], 14 October 1848. 

30 Russell Square

Lond:

14th Oct: 48

My dear Sir

       Your obliging letter has relieved my mind from a serious anxiety. I respect you too much not to be annoyed by what appeard to me the evidence of offence for which I could not account; but I rejoice that you have removed the oppression – I meant to write impression, but either word will do –

      I am glad that the letter of Mr C:[1] is removed from a somewhat public magazine ^museum^. Not that it is dishonourable to the writer On the contrary it speaks much more for than against him – That a person in straightened circumstances str, maintaining himself with difficulty by literary labour should be willing to undertake the maintenance of a natural child already of age, more than atones for the fault he had committed in his youth –

       I recollect the uncertain state of the health of your family when I saw you last year And having seen none of your private friends lately, I am afraid to present any remembrances, lest I should make a painful mistake

            I am faithfully your’s

                         H. C. Robinson

Dawson Turner Esqr

&c &c &c

No address page or endorsement.

Text: Turner Papers, O.14.45/109 (1848), Trinity College, Cambridge University. Reference above is to a letter in Turner’s possession of HCR’s cousin George Crabbe (1778-1851), not the poet, but rather a barrister and author of several books on English grammar and law.