BIB_ID
122246
Accession number
MA 225.10
Creator
Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834.
Display Date
1830 May 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 23.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with trace of a seal and postmark, and addressed to "Robert Southey Esqr / Keswick / Cumberland."
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.
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
Concerning his Life of Bunyan and the poverty of William Hone (author and bookseller). Mentioning Coleridge's recent attack ("not paralytic") and inquiring after the Wordsworth and Southey families. With a postscript giving an epigram "Cuique Sum" (first line: "Adsciscit sibi divitias et opes alienas") that he composed for a schoolboy. Noting that it is "with one exception, the only Latin verses I have made for forty years, and I did it "to order.""
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