BIB_ID
107435
Accession number
MA 9002
Creator
Blanchard, Laman, 1804-1845.
Display Date
undated.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Blanchard gives "Union Place" as the place of writing, an address in the borough of Lambeth, London, at which he is known to have lived. The date of writing is given only as "Thursday."
The autograph signatures that Blanchard enclosed are no longer with the letter.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of John Forster, The life of Charles Dickens (London: Chapman and Hall, 1872-1874); Call number: 509 D548 F.
The autograph signatures that Blanchard enclosed are no longer with the letter.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of John Forster, The life of Charles Dickens (London: Chapman and Hall, 1872-1874); Call number: 509 D548 F.
Summary
Returning her pamphlets "of which I have not time to write you my opinion"; sending her "a dozen autographs of literary persons," including Barry Cornwall, George Cruikshank, William Harrison Ainsworth, Mrs. S. C. Hall (Anna Maria Hall), Lady Blessington, Leigh Hunt ("his initials only, yet I thought you might like a scrap of his writing, as he has ever been a great champion of womankind"), Thomas Noon Talfourd, Catherine Stepney, and "poor L.E.L."
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