BIB_ID
193496
Accession number
MA 22998
Creator
Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834.
Display Date
[1827 October 1].
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Benjamin Sonnenberg, 1975.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 15.4 x 10.1 cm
Notes
The place of writing is not given, but based on internal evidence, it was most likely written from Enfield, Middlesex, to which the Lambs moved in their later years. An earlier catalog record identified the exact address as "The Case, Enfield."
No date of writing is given; the estimated date of writing has been taken from the edition of the Lambs' correspondence, cited below.
Lamb addresses his correspondent only as "M." E.V. Lucas has identified this as Edward Moxon.
Purchased with a letter from Mathilda Betham to George Dyer, dated 1831 March 23 (MA 4397).
No date of writing is given; the estimated date of writing has been taken from the edition of the Lambs' correspondence, cited below.
Lamb addresses his correspondent only as "M." E.V. Lucas has identified this as Edward Moxon.
Purchased with a letter from Mathilda Betham to George Dyer, dated 1831 March 23 (MA 4397).
Provenance
Purchased from John F. Fleming as the gift of Benjamin Sonnenberg, 1975.
Summary
Asking him to inform the Hoods and Sarah Stoddart (previously married to William Hazlitt and referred to as "Mrs Hazlitt") that Mary is ill once again: "Our pleasant meetings for some time are suspended. My sister was taken very ill in a few hours after you left us (I has suspected it), and I must wait eight or nine weeks in slow hope of her recovery. It is her old complaint ... We are in the House, that is all. I hope one day we shall both enjoy it, and see our friends again. But till then I must be a solitary nurse."
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