Letters, 1806-1842, England | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:1806 Mar. 13, to Mrs. Catherine Clarkson, Purfleet, England (1 folded sheet, [4] p.). States circumstances connected with the death of John Wordsworth; mentions her brother's writing and Thomas Manning's journey to China; inquires about Mr. [Thomas] Clarkson's "Quaker book" [A portraiture of Quakerism]; mentions Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Reprinted in The letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb, ed. E.W. Marrs, v.3 (1978), p. 215-218; also (less perfectly transcribed) in The letters of Charles Lamb, ed. E.V. Lucas (1935), v.1, p. 430-432. Folder includes negative photostat and Philip D. Sherman's typed transcript of this letter