Martha J. Lamb letters [manuscript], 1887-1892.

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Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. Martha J. Lamb letters [manuscript], 1887-1892.

Martha J. Lamb letters [manuscript], 1887-1892.

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In a letter, 1887 Aug 26, to Miss Esther Singleton, Lamb writes "Please omit my biography altogether from the Cyclopedia of American Biography: In its present condition I shall refuse to have it appear. It is faulty in every particular. Kindly return me the manuscript of data, that I took some trouble to send in." In a letter, 1888 Aug 4, to Mrs. Holloway. she writes "I thank you cordially for your very kind and complimentary note, but I must positively decline to be quoted in the connection you propose. My religion is something too sweet and sacred to be made the subject of public remarkƯ" A letter, 1889 Nov 13, to Mr. Cooper is a terse note about subjects covered in two earlier letters. Mentions "Autograph of Judge Van Voorst, and...three impressions of the portrait" and asks about three other pictures, "Holland House, Portrait of Sydney Smith, Portrait of Jeffrey" and seven autographs, saying "I need them very much." She ends with a postscript demanding a charge she paid to be corrected. In a letter, 1892 Jan 28, to Mr. D. Van Pelt she accepts, with specified conditions, Van Pelt's proposition to publish text of a talk she read before the New York Historical Society "as a chapter of the second volume of the Memorial History of New York." In a letter, 1892 Jan 29, to Mr. D. Van Pelt, Secretary she writes "I cannot consent to the use of my paper on any other conditions that those named in my note of yesterday. The paper is well known to all scholars, and it would not do to suppress the truth in regard to it. Will you kindly send the copy I sent you to my secretary (instead of a check)..."

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