Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
March 1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/839
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lor 839—continued. An Essay by Leigh Hunt headed “ An Angel ” There are various other Poems unidentified Also a very finely executed Sketch of Cowper’s Summer House, and a number of other Drawings, Silhouettes, etc. quarto album, leather bound ; The Property of Ldgar de Knivett, Lsq. 840 Lamp (Charles) A. L. 1p. 4to [? Jany. 1833], to Edward Moxon : Dear M. let us see you & your Brother on Sunday. The Elias are beautifully got up. Be cautious how you name the probability of bringing ’em ever out complete till these are gone off —Everybody ’d say “O I'll wait then.” An’t we to have a copy of the Sonnets, mind I shall insist upon having no more copies: only I shall take 3 or 4 more of you at trade price. I am resolute about this. Yours aver 841 Lamp (C.) A. Lis. “ C. L.” 1p. 4to [postmark Dulwich, Sept. 20th, 1826], to Miss Lamb, Colebrook Cottage, Islington : I have had much trouble to find Field today. No matter. He was packing up for out of town. He has writ a handsomeish letter which you will transmit to Murray with your proof sheets. Seal it. Yours C..L. Mr. T. Hood will drink tea with us on Thursday at 3 past 5 at latest. N.B. I have lost my Museum reading today: a day with Titus, owing to your dam’d bisness. I am the last to reproach anybody. I scorn it. If you shall have the whole book ready soon, it will be best for Murray to see. 842 Lamp (C.) A. L.s. “Ch. Lamb,” 1 p. 8vo, Monday (? October, 1827), to Edward Moxon : Dear M. Our pleasant meetings for sometime are suspended. My sister was taken very ill in a few hours after you left us (I had suspected it) and I must wait eight or nine weeks in slow hope of her recovery. It is her old complaint... the Letter has been torn in the creases and laid down
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