BIB_ID
195947
Accession number
MA 13741
Creator
Clare, John, 1793-1864.
Display Date
[1832?].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 23 x 19 cm
Notes
With address and remains of seal, "Allan Cunningham Esq / London / Forward by my Friends Mr. Nell".
Date suggested by the fact that Clare enlisted the assistance of Mr. Nell in the spring of 1832 in an unsuccessful attempt to publish a volume of his poems by subscription.
Date suggested by the fact that Clare enlisted the assistance of Mr. Nell in the spring of 1832 in an unsuccessful attempt to publish a volume of his poems by subscription.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Introducing Mr. Nell, a Peterborough bookseller, and "very hearty fellow & one who is very desirous of seeing yourself as a Poet ... he will be particularly gratified in seeing what you can show him of the immortal specimens of Chantrey's Genius"; stating that he is himself "as dull as a fog in November", and asking in a postscript if [James] Hogg has come to London ("When he does tell me & I'm d----d if I don't muster up every atom of my possebility to have a sight of him.").
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