BIB_ID
459904
Accession number
MA 24042.2
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) ; 25.2 x 20.5 cm
Notes
Lachlan was the Lambs' neighbor in Enfield, Middlesex.
Acquired with a letter from Charles Lamb to Sarah Lachlan (MA 24042.1) and a poem, possibly composed for Lachlan, by Mary Lamb (MA 24042.3).
Acquired with a letter from Charles Lamb to Sarah Lachlan (MA 24042.1) and a poem, possibly composed for Lachlan, by Mary Lamb (MA 24042.3).
Provenance
Purchased from Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers, "David E. Wickham collection of Charles Lamb and his circle," Catalogue CCLXXV, Spring 2025, 29A.
Summary
An acrostic spelling out Sarah Lachlan's name. Apparently written on an album leaf. With a pasted-on note referencing Emma Isola on the recto and a painting of a flower on the verso.
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