BIB_ID
122245
Accession number
MA 225.7
Creator
Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834.
Display Date
undated [1829 July].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark, and addressed to "Mr. Wm Hazlitt Junr. / 36 Southampton Buildings / Holborn / or at the Southampton Arms."
Lamb's letter is followed by a letter (2 1/2 p.) from Emma Isola, also to Hazlitt, thanking him for a letter and discussing a visit from Maria.
Localization from reference in Isola's letter. Dated to early July 1829 by Lucas.
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.
Lamb's letter is followed by a letter (2 1/2 p.) from Emma Isola, also to Hazlitt, thanking him for a letter and discussing a visit from Maria.
Localization from reference in Isola's letter. Dated to early July 1829 by Lucas.
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
Breaking an engagement to see Hazlitt's mother, noting that "when Emma leaves me, I shall wish to be quite alone." With a postscript mentioning "When I am wretched, company makes me tenfold more so."
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