BIB_ID
300043
Accession number
MA 225.9
Creator
Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834.
Display Date
[1830 June 3].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 20.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks and twice addressed to Mrs. Hazlitt.
Dating from postmark.
Part of a collection of letters and poems of Charles and Mary Lamb. Items in the collection are described in individual catalog records; see collection-level record for MA 225 for more information.
Sarah Stoddart was the sister of Sir John Stoddart, kings advocate at Malta. In 1808 she married William Hazlitt (1778-1830); in 1822 they were divorced.
Dating from postmark.
Part of a collection of letters and poems of Charles and Mary Lamb. Items in the collection are described in individual catalog records; see collection-level record for MA 225 for more information.
Sarah Stoddart was the sister of Sir John Stoddart, kings advocate at Malta. In 1808 she married William Hazlitt (1778-1830); in 1822 they were divorced.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Summary
Discussing the possibility of her son [William Hazlitt, Jr.] taking up music seriously, stating that Lamb relayed her thoughts on this to her ex-husband William Hazlitt, who "expressed such a horror and aversion to the idea of his singing in public, that I cannot meddle in it directly or indirectly." Suggesting she contact Ayrton for advice instead, and expressing "sympathy for [her] sad sufferings."
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