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Add MS 50951
- Record Id:
- 032-002084722
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002084722
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000052.0x00004c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 50951
- Title:
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CHARLES LAMB: 'The Tombs in the Abbey. In a letter to R[obert] S[outhey] Esqr.'; circa 1833. Autograph fair copy, with revisions. The printer's copy of the first paragraph of the essay published as the fourteenth (f. 1b) in Last Essays of Elia, 1833. This essay comprises a revised version of the final three paragraphs of the 'Letter of Elia to Robert Southey' printed in The London Magazine, vii, no. xlvi, Oct. 1823, p. 405. See The Works in Prose and Verse of Charles and Mary Lamb, ed. T. Hutchinson, Oxford, 1908, i, pp. 299-302,
729-32. Formerly owned by George Moffat (b. 1806, d. 1878) of Goodrich Court, Ross. Sotheby's, 27 Oct. 1959, lot 420. See also Quaritch's Catalogue No. 832, 1962, item 431.
Paper; ff. i+1. Folio and 160 x 110mm. Countermark 'J WHATMAN/1818'.
- Scope & Content:
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Charles Lamb, essayist: `The Tombs in the Abbey': circa 1833: Fragm.: Autogr.
Robert Southey, poet: C. Lamb, `The Tombs in the Abbey', addressed to,: circa 1833.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002084722
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002084722
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1828
- End Date:
- 1838
- Date Range:
- c 1833
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Custodial History:
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George Moffat, of Goodrich Court, Ross: Owned, bef. 1878.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Lamb, Charles, essayist
Moffat, George, of Goodrich Court Ross
Southey, Robert, poet, 1774-1843