Letter : to Barron Field, [1822] Sept. 22.

Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library)

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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...

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...

Talma, François Joseph, 1763-1826

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French actor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to M. Neveu, bookseller, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270576095 ...

Field, Barron, 1786-1846

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Judge, Supreme Court of NSW, 1816-1825. Author of "First fruits of Australian poetry" (1819), the first book of poems published in Australia, and editor of and contributor to "Geographical memoirs on New South Wales" (1825). From the description of Letter, Harcourt Buildings, Temple, [London] to D. Coates [manuscript]. 1825 Nov. 15. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225849741 ...

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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William Shakespeare was likely born April, 23, 1564; he was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564. He grew up, had a family, and bought property in Stratford while working in London, the center of English theater. As an actor, a playwright, and a partner in a leading acting company, he became both prosperous and well-known. His parents were John and Mary Shakespeare. John was a leatherworker and involved in local politics, first becoming an alderman and eventually a town bailiff. ...

Ireland, W. H. (William Henry), 1777-1835

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English forger of Shakespeare manuscripts. From the description of Autograph forgery in the form of an autograph receipt signed by William Shakespeare : [London], [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269518423 English forger. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Mrs. Colepeper, 1825 July 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269528697 William Henry Ireland, English writer and literary forger. From the description of W...

Zincke, Paul Francis, d. 1830.

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