BIB_ID
232617
Accession number
MA 5005
Creator
Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834.
Display Date
1798-1799.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1996.
Description
1 item (40 p.), bound ; 32.5 cm
Notes
A manuscript of Lamb's first dramatic poem, John Woodvill, here with the working title Pride's Cure. Written mainly in the hand of Lamb's sister, Mary, but with autograph corrections and annotations by the author. Concluded by Mary Lamb "End of "Pride's Cure,"" to which Charles Lamb has added "and C. Lamb's dramatic works!!"
Dated "begun August 1798 finish'd May 1799."
An undated autograph letter from Charles Lamb to his friend [Thomas] Manning is written on inner board cover. The letter introduces and discusses the play John Woodvill.
It is known that Lamb sent manuscript copies of this work to Southey, Coleridge, and other friends; this copy, the only one surviving, was sent to Thomas Manning, the "M" that Lamb acknowledged as the source of the idea for "A Dissertation upon Roast Pig."
Dated "begun August 1798 finish'd May 1799."
An undated autograph letter from Charles Lamb to his friend [Thomas] Manning is written on inner board cover. The letter introduces and discusses the play John Woodvill.
It is known that Lamb sent manuscript copies of this work to Southey, Coleridge, and other friends; this copy, the only one surviving, was sent to Thomas Manning, the "M" that Lamb acknowledged as the source of the idea for "A Dissertation upon Roast Pig."
Provenance
Purchased from Quaritch in 1996.
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