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Letter from Charles Lamb to Sarah Lachlan, undated : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
459902
Accession number
MA 24042.1
Creator
Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834.
Credit line
Purchased for the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Foundation as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2025.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.5 x 16.5 cm
Notes
Dated "Saturday eveng."
Lachlan was the Lambs' neighbor in Enfield, Middlesex.
Provenance
Purchased from Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers, "David E. Wickham collection of Charles Lamb and his circle," Catalogue CCLXXV, Spring 2025, 29A.
Summary
Writing "Emma [Isola] has so few days to stay with me, that it would be painful to me to part with her for one whole one"; promising to bring her to tea on Monday; adding "I enclose your brother an autograph of [Joseph] Jekyll, Bencher of the Temple, and the reputed wit of the Bar for the last 50 years" (autograph no longer with the letter); sending "Emma's kindest love to your aunt & self."