To the Author of the "Letters to a Young Gentleman, whose Education had been neglected" : manuscript, [between 1823?-1833].

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To the Author of the "Letters to a Young Gentleman, whose Education had been neglected" : manuscript, [between 1823?-1833].

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Concerns Lamb's response to Thomas De Quincey's publication of his "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater", probably written for Lamb's "The essays of Elia."

1 v. ; 35 cm.

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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...

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x0002d6 De Quincey was an English essayist and critic. From the description of Compositions, 1818-185-. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 80714484 From the guide to the Compositions, 1818-185-?., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) English Romantic author Thomas De Quincey was a brilliant cl...

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