Letter to Allan Cunningham. [s.l.]. [18--]

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Letter to Allan Cunningham. [s.l.]. [18--]

Concerning Darley's visit with Charles Lamb; with mention of Lamb's idleness and the manuscript of his new play.

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Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834

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Charles Lamb was born to John and Elizabeth (Field) Lamb in London on February 10, 1775. Two of his siblings survived to adulthood, John (1763-1821) and Mary Ann (1764-1847). Charles Lamb studied at Christ's Hospital but left the school at the age of fifteen due to his chronic stammering. He began working as a secretary and later entered the mercantile trade, joining the East India Company as a clerk in the accounting department in 1792. Mental illness ran in the Lamb family, and C...

Darley, George, 1795-1846

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Irish poet and mathematician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Parthenon Club," to Charles West Cope, 1845 May 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526423 ...

Cunningham, Allan, 1784-1842

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Allan Cunningham was a Scottish author. Trained as a stonemason, he made a name for himself by passing off his own poetry as a collection of traditional Scottish ballads. As a professional man of letters, he had diverse interests, writing plays, novels, short stories, collecting and editing anthologies, and writing biographies and other nonfiction, but was probably most successful as a poet. From the description of Allan Cunningham letters, 1825-1839. (Pennsylvania State University L...