BIB_ID
121926
Accession number
MA 225.5
Creator
Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834.
Display Date
1827 Aug. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters and poems of Charles and Mary Lamb. Items in the collection are described in individual catalog records; see collection-level record for MA 225 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Summary
Discussing the education of his adopted daughter [Emma Isola] and her prospects of becoming a Private Teacher in a respectable family. Noting that she is accomplished in French, Italian, Music and Drawing, and that Lamb is currently instructing her in Latin. Mentioning that "as an English Reader -- a not very common accomplishment -- our friend Coleridge will bear witness to the very excellent manner in which she read to him some of the most difficult passages in Paradise Lost." Asking Jameson to solicit Mr. Gunning on her behalf.
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