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LAMB, Charles (1775-1834). Autograph letter signed ('C L') to Peter George Patmore in Calais, Londres, 19 Julie, 1827, commencing 1I am so poorly I have been to a funeral, describing the circumstances, writing pessimistically about a tragi-comedy that he has written, gossip about Hazlitt, Proctor, Moxon, Godwin, 3 pages, folio (320 x 200mm), address panel on verso of last leaf.
Quite an amusing letter, talking about the funeral, 'I can't describe to you the howl which the widow set up at proper intervals', gossiping about Hazlitt's marital affairs and speculating about the new Mrs. H. He recommends Patmore to use a story by Massinger Old Law for his book 'it is exquisite ... I am doing a tragi-comedy [The Wife's Trial] in two acts, and have got on tolerably, but it will be refused, or worse. I never had luck with any thing my name was put to. O, I am so poorly!' He asks Patmore 'If you go through Bulloign enquire if Godfrey is living, and how he got home from the Crusades' and inquiring also about 'Chatty-Briant'.
Published in Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, ed. E.V.Lucas, vol.III pp.105-108.
Quite an amusing letter, talking about the funeral, 'I can't describe to you the howl which the widow set up at proper intervals', gossiping about Hazlitt's marital affairs and speculating about the new Mrs. H. He recommends Patmore to use a story by Massinger Old Law for his book 'it is exquisite ... I am doing a tragi-comedy [The Wife's Trial] in two acts, and have got on tolerably, but it will be refused, or worse. I never had luck with any thing my name was put to. O, I am so poorly!' He asks Patmore 'If you go through Bulloign enquire if Godfrey is living, and how he got home from the Crusades' and inquiring also about 'Chatty-Briant'.
Published in Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, ed. E.V.Lucas, vol.III pp.105-108.