BIB_ID
300087
Accession number
MA 225.24
Creator
Lamb, Mary, 1764-1847.
Display Date
Wednesday morning [1805 Sept. 18].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 32.3 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark (SE 18 1805), and addressed to "Miss Stoddart / Salisbury." Docketed 1806.
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.
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
Number 113 in an unidentified sale; purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Summary
Apologizing for the fact that Charles has penned all her letters of late, noting that writing to Stoddart "has always brought your troubles and my own so strongly into my mind, that I have been obliged to leave off, and make Charles write for me." Reporting on her wellbeing, stating that "I have been for these few days past in rather better spirits, so that I begin almost to feel myself once more a living creature," and wishing that Sarah had been there "to cheer my drooping heart when I returned home from banishment." Discussing at length a pension for Stoddart's dying mother and inquiring after the Stoddart family, asking whether relations had cooled between her brother Sir John Stoddart and Coleridge. Asking after her relationship with William [Hazlitt?], wondering "if there is any prospect in future there."
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