In a subsequent passage of the letter already quoted, we are reminded that as early as the year 1803 Mrs.Crabbe's mental derangement was familiarly known to her friends.
But now, when his latest book was at last in print, and attracting general attention, the end of Crabbe's long watching was not far off.

In the summer of 1813 Mrs.Crabbe had rallied so far as to express a wish to see London again, and the father and mother and two sons spent nearly three months in rooms in a hotel.

Crabbe was able to visit Dudley North, and other of his old friends, and to enter to some extent into the gaieties of the town, but also, as always, taking advantage of the return to London to visit and help the poor and distressed, not unmindful of his own want and misery in the great city thirty years before.

The family returned to Muston in September, and towards the close of the month Mrs.Crabbe was released from her long disease.

On the north wall of the chancel of Muston Church, close to the altar, is a plain marble slab recording that not far away lie the remains of "Sarah, wife of the Rev.George Crabbe, late Rector of this Parish." Within _two_ days of the wife's death Crabbe fell ill of a serious malady, worn out as he was with long anxiety and grief.