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Lamb, Mary, 1764-1847. Letters, 1806-1842, England.

Title: Letters, 1806-1842, England.

1806 Mar. 13, to Mrs. Catherine Clarkson, Purfleet, England (1 folded sheet, [4] p.). States circumstances connected with the death of John Wordsworth; mentions her brother's writing and Thomas Manning's journey to China; inquires about Mr. [Thomas] Clarkson's "Quaker book" [A portraiture of Quakerism]; mentions Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Reprinted in The letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb, ed. E.W. Marrs, v.3 (1978), p. 215-218; also (less perfectly transcribed) in The letters of Charles Lamb, ed. E.V. Lucas (1935), v.1, p. 430-432. Folder includes negative photostat and Philip D. Sherman's typed transcript of this letter. 1842, Sept. 25 and Oct. 3, to Emma Isola Moxon (each [1] p., on the two leaves of a folded sheet). (25 Sept.) She is suffering from a cold, and proposes to stay at home by her fire; Betsey Parsons [daughter of her landlady] has heard about the wax doll belonging to "little Emma", and will bring a penny doll to her to be the "grand dolls Baby" when Mary can bring her to Dover Street in an omnibus. (3 Oct.) She encloses a letter received from Jane Norris, to which she has responded; her cold is "quite well", and she wishes to hear about health of Emma and her family. The second (3 Oct.) letter only is reprinted in The letters of Charles Lamb, ed. E.V. Lucas (1935), v.3, p. 424 (preceded by the response to Jane Norris, dated "Octr 3 1842", to which she referred). This is, according to Lucas, the last extant letter written by Mary Lamb.

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