BIB_ID
122242
Accession number
MA 1151
Creator
Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834.
Display Date
Twelfth day 23 [i.e. 1823 Jan. 06].
Credit line
Purchased, 1941.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 20.3 cm
Notes
Address panel with trace of a seal and addressed to "Mrs. Collier / Smallfield Place / East Grinstead / Sussex."
Mrs. J. D. Collier was the mother of John Payne Collier.
This letter was written shortly after the publication of Lamb's "A dissertation upon roast pig," in the London magazine for Sept. 1822.
Mrs. J. D. Collier was the mother of John Payne Collier.
This letter was written shortly after the publication of Lamb's "A dissertation upon roast pig," in the London magazine for Sept. 1822.
Provenance
R. B. Adam (his sale New York Feb. 15-16, 1926); A. Edward Newton (his sale New York, May 15, 1941, lot 593) with his bookplate and autograph note on fly-leaf; purchased from Rosenbach in 1941.
Summary
Describing a roast piglet that he has recently eaten, mentioning that Lamb contrived to get one of the ears and noting "he crackled delicately." Referencing his own aging, saying "My faculties, thank God, are not much impaired. I have my sight, hearing, taste, pretty perfect; and can read the Lords Prayer ... without making many mistakes." Again praising the roast pig, and sating that "the last lingering relish of past flavors upon my dying memory will be the smack of that little Ear. It was the left ear, which is lucky."
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (28.2 cm)
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