Mary Lamb manuscript material

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{"value"=>"23627", "type"=>"local_mss"}

origination

{"value"=>"Lamb, Mary, 1764-1847", "type"=>"persname"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Mary Lamb manuscript material"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1811-1820", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1811/1820"}

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{"value"=>"<p>· To Matilda Betham, writer and miniature painter : 1 autograph letter signed : 6 Mar 1811 : (S'ANA 0990) : [no place] : promising to drag the hopelessly unreliable Coleridge along to meet her; begins, \"Coleridge has given me a very chearful promise that he will wait on Lady Jerningham any day you will be pleased ...\".</p><p>· 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 : 1 autograph letter fragment : 22 May 1815 : (S'ANA 0994) : [no place] : also addressed to Mrs. Morgan's sister, Miss [Charlotte] Brent. Includes an anedcote regarding Wordsworth's criticism of Godwin's Lives of Edward and John Philips. A portion of the letter is written by Charles Lamb. Begins, \"I have just heard from your good man in Bishopgate Street -- I forget his name -- that you are all well and happily situated ...\".</p><p>· To Mary Novello, wife of music publisher Vincent Novello : 1 autograph letter signed : ca. 21-22 Dec 1820 : (S'ANA 0037) : [no place] : on Charles's illness, and assuring her that the Lambs will see her and her family soon; begins, \"I use my brother's pen, being so much more elegant than my own ...\".</p>"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Mary Lamb, English children's book writer. The sister of Charles Lamb, the essayist, Mary contributed several works to William Godwin's Juvenile Library, including Tales from Shakespeare, a collaboration with her brother.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

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1811

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1811

date_end

1820

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1811

date_inclusive_end

1820

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3 items

prefercite

{"value"=>"Mary Lamb manuscript material : 3 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Mary Lamb, English children's book writer. The sister of Charles Lamb, the essayist, Mary contributed several works to William Godwin's Juvenile Library, including Tales from Shakespeare, a collaboration with her brother. &#xB7; To Matilda Betham, writer and miniature painter : 1 autograph letter signed : 6 Mar 1811 : (S'ANA 0990) : [no place] : promising to drag the hopelessly unreliable Coleridge along to meet her; begins, \"Coleridge has given me a very chearful promise that he will wait on Lady Jerningham any day you will be pleased ...\".", "generated"=>true}

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