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LAMB, Charles (1775-1834). Autograph letter signed ('C. Lamb') to Bernard Barton, n.p., [24 January 1823], one page, 8vo, integral address leaf; with an autograph manuscript signed by Barton of a poem addressed 'To C.L.', 24 lines on one page, 8vo; in two red morocco backed portfolios. Provenance: Halsted B. Vander Poel.
Lamb reports the dispatch of a copy of his Essays of Elia: 'This notelet is to say, an Elia was book'd off to you from Spread Eagle Gracechurch St this 24 Jan 23'; Lamb goes on to suggest a meeting with 'Fox' at 20 Russell St, 'but no hurry. A month hence wd suit me better than now', and thanks Barton for a sonnet, though disclaiming a compliment in it: 'I am not mad enough to take the last line for any thing more than a pretty alliteration'.
Lamb's Essays of Elia, which had first appeared in the London Magazine from 1820, were first published in book form in 1823. Bernard Barton, a clerk in a Quaker bank at Woodbridge in Suffolk and a devotional and humorous poet, became a close friend of Lamb's after an initial quarrel caused by Lamb's gibes on the probability of a Quaker being a poet (Lamb's letter to Barton of 11 September 1822). His poem included here evidently was written to accompany a copy of his New Year's Eve and other Poems (1828), and humorously disclaims the volume's frontispiece and its dedication to the Bishop of Winchester: 'Sumner, tho' he holds a See, Has said and done kind things for me, For which "I owe him one!"'.
Lamb reports the dispatch of a copy of his Essays of Elia: 'This notelet is to say, an Elia was book'd off to you from Spread Eagle Gracechurch St this 24 Jan 23'; Lamb goes on to suggest a meeting with 'Fox' at 20 Russell St, 'but no hurry. A month hence wd suit me better than now', and thanks Barton for a sonnet, though disclaiming a compliment in it: 'I am not mad enough to take the last line for any thing more than a pretty alliteration'.
Lamb's Essays of Elia, which had first appeared in the London Magazine from 1820, were first published in book form in 1823. Bernard Barton, a clerk in a Quaker bank at Woodbridge in Suffolk and a devotional and humorous poet, became a close friend of Lamb's after an initial quarrel caused by Lamb's gibes on the probability of a Quaker being a poet (Lamb's letter to Barton of 11 September 1822). His poem included here evidently was written to accompany a copy of his New Year's Eve and other Poems (1828), and humorously disclaims the volume's frontispiece and its dedication to the Bishop of Winchester: 'Sumner, tho' he holds a See, Has said and done kind things for me, For which "I owe him one!"'.
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