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Sir (Samuel) Egerton Brydges, English writer and genealogist. Before experiencing a disappointing lack of success as a poet, he wrote Topographical Miscellanies (1792) and was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. His novels, including Mary De-Clifford (1792) and Arthur Fitz-Albini (1798) were more popular than his poetry had been. He was elected to Parliament in 1812 and moved to Geneva in the early 1820's, where he remained for the rest of his life. Brydges continued to write various kinds of works, including his Impartial Portrait of Lord Byron (1824). To William Hayley, poet and biographer : 2 autograph letters signed : 18 Dec 1806 (MISC 0384) and 9 Sep 1807 (MISC 0383), regarding Cowper, Gray, Bloomfield, and his discouragement as a poet due to Johnson's Lives of the Poets, and the reviews, particularly the Edinburgh. less

Robert Triphook, antiquarian bookseller and publisher. · To Sir Egerton Brydges, writer and genealogist : 1 autograph letter signed : 15 Oct 1820 : (MISC 3782) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from 23 Old Bond Street : begins, "I wrote in reply to your former Letters early in August by a Gentleman who was leaving London for Italy . . ."; discussing the commercial failure of Brydges' latest publication, Tragic Tales, but expressing optimism for his Population and Riches of Nations, which Triphook says "would come out well with Godwin's answer to Malthus, now on the eve of publication.". less