BIB_ID
459909
Accession number
MA 24042.3
Creator
Lamb, Mary, 1764-1847.
Credit line
Purchased for the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Foundation as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2025.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 23 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Sarah Lachlan was the Lambs' neighbor in Enfield, Middlesex.
Acquired with a letter from Charles Lamb to Sarah Lachlan and an acrostic on Lachlan's name (MA 24042.1-2).
Acquired with a letter from Charles Lamb to Sarah Lachlan and an acrostic on Lachlan's name (MA 24042.1-2).
Provenance
Purchased from Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers, "David E. Wickham collection of Charles Lamb and his circle," Catalogue CCLXXV, Spring 2025, 29A.
Summary
A poem of three four-line stanzas, possibly written for Sarah Lachlan. With a covering note on the address panel: "For my dear Sarah with my earnest prayer for every happiness to attend Her. ML."
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