BIB_ID
129167
Accession number
MA 4397
Creator
Betham, Matilda, 1776-1852.
Display Date
1831 March 23.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Benjamin Sonnenberg, 1975.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 18.5 x 11.6 cm
Notes
Address panel: "George Dyer Esq / Clifford's Inn / Fleet Street."
Docketed.
Docketed.
Provenance
Purchased from John F. Fleming as the gift of Benjamin Sonnenberg, 1975.
Summary
Writing that she is anxious to hear from him and that, if he continues to have trouble with his eyes, she hopes that his wife Honour Dyer will write on his behalf; asking him, if he sees the Lambs, to tell them that she was very amused to see the advertisement for Charles's book Satan in Search of a Wife; including an original poem in five stanzas inspired by the title: "I've often heard of the devil's dam, / But never of his wife; / Nor that he ever yet became / Tir'd of a single life! / But now I almost long to hear, / Where he his choice did fix! / Whether upon a crafty [pheer] / To aid him in his tricks: / Or one it might his fancy please / To play these tricks upon; / And to the most perfection seize, / Like many a mortal John. / And how he every [illegible] addrest, / And open'd every door; / And which in truth he loves the best, / The wealthy or the poor! / Charles Lamb! 'tis a tremendous task / That you have undertaken! / For we have all a right to ask / 'Had they the flitch of Bacon?'"; sending her best wishes to Mrs. Dyer and her son and daughter; asking whether Dyer had seen the review of her brother's book in the Literary Gazette (possibly referring to William Betham's book Dignities, feudal and parliamentary, and the constitutional legislature of the United Kingdom...).
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