Charles Lamb manuscript material : 8 items, ca. 1800-1829

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Charles Lamb manuscript material : 8 items, ca. 1800-1829

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· Manuscript notes in Thomas Fuller's The Holy State : no date : (S'ANA 1018) : Lamb's annotations (mostly very brief) are on p. 7, 180, 186, 270, 279, [340], [342], 387, and 486. The book is shelved as *Pforz (BT) Lamb 01. · Manuscript note on the playbill for Antonio, by Wililam Godwin : [ca. Dec 1800] : (G'ANA 0005) : reading, "Damned with universal consent." Published with commentary, including a photo reproduction, in Shelley and His Circle, vol. I, p. 243. · Holograph essay, "Jews, Quakers, Scotchmen, and Other Imperfect Sympathies" : ca. 1820-1822 : (S'ANA 0034) : signed "Elia" ; 4 folio leaves, final leaf bearing address to Taylor & Hessey, publishers. Bound in brown morocco. Filed in SC oversized manuscript drawer. · To Charles Cowden Clarke, writer and public lecturer : 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Feb 1829 : (S'ANA 0036) : thanking him for some books and discussing his own and Mary Lamb's taste in literature. · To William Harness, literary scholar : 1 autograph letter signed : 25 Jan 1823 : (S'ANA 0035) : signed "Elia" ; returning a rejected manuscript he had submitted to the London Magazine. · To Mr. J. A. Hessey of Taylor & Hessey, publishers : 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Sep 1823 : (S'ANA 0892) : announcing Mary Shelley's interest in contributing to the London Magazine. · To Mary Morgan, née Brent, wife and sister-in-law of John James Morgan (d. 1820), lawyer turned cheesemonger and tobacconist, friend of Coleridge and Southey : 2 autograph letters : -- 18 Mar 1812 : (S'ANA 1019) : providing the recipe for a marble-cleaning solution. -- 22 May 1815 : (S'ANA 0994) : fragment ; also addressed to Mary's sister, Miss [Charlotte] Brent. The larger portion of the letter is written by Mary Lamb.

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