BIB_ID
193062
Accession number
MA 4301
Creator
Clare, John, 1793-1864.
Display Date
[1824 May 19].
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund as the gift of Gladys Livermore Ripley (Mrs. James H. Ripley), 1986.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 23.7 x 18.6 cm
Notes
The date of writing has been taken from the postmark.
Addressed with full seal and postmark to: "Messrs Taylor & Hessey / 93 Fleet St / London."
The seal has Clare's initials, "J.C."
James Hessey, in partnership with John Taylor, was Clare's publisher in the 1820s.
Addressed with full seal and postmark to: "Messrs Taylor & Hessey / 93 Fleet St / London."
The seal has Clare's initials, "J.C."
James Hessey, in partnership with John Taylor, was Clare's publisher in the 1820s.
Provenance
Previously owned by James Gilvarry. Purchased at Christie's, February 7, 1986 (lot 8).
Summary
Saying that he is about to depart for London: "tho I like the outside best I must go inside on account of my [head] for I fancy its worse since I wrote you"; writing that he will use the draft (possibly provided by Hessey) for the coach fare and spend little along the way; adding "my family are very loath to let me come but I have so great an opinion of Dr Darling that I must start tho I feel very difficult my self to encourage the resolution"; writing that he will follow Darling's recommendations, whatever they are; telling Hessey that he will be coming on the "Boston Coach"; adding: "their is one thing I feel a great antipathy against & that is noise nor can I bear merriment of any kind anything quiet & mellancholy suits"; describing his illness and the effects: "if I coud get my head right I shoud do for if I coud read or write or even remember what I have done or know & feel as my self I shoud do but to be in this walking dream is almost unbearable."
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