MRS. SARAH TRIMMER (1741-1810); ELIZABETH SEWELL (1815-1906)

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MRS. SARAH TRIMMER (1741-1810); ELIZABETH SEWELL (1815-1906)
A one-page autograph letter of 9 lines, no address, [ca. 1787], to her publisher Joseph Johnson, requesting that he send her "some Copy as the weather prevents her coming to town this week." She adds: "If Mrs. Barbauld's Lessons are bound, should be glad to have them -- also one Introduction and one Little Spelling book" (lightly browned and soiled). With a two-page autograph letter signed by Elizabeth Sewell, from [Bonchurch], Wed. 27th 1867, to Miss Lawrence, thanking her for looking after "Violet" and inviting her: "one evening for a little music and supper" (verso with adhesive marks, some later annotations at head). (2)

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Mrs. Trimmer is possibly referring to her book Easy lessons for young children advertised in Aikin's Calendar of Nature 1787. This was a sequel to her Little Spelling Book first published in 1787. Her first publication Easy Introduction to the Knowledge of Nature was published in 1782 following the success of Mrs. Ann Laetitia Barbauld's (1743-1825) Early Lessons for Children of 1778. Johnson published an edition of Mrs. Barbauld's work in 1794. Elizabeth Sewell and her brother the Rev. William Sewell wrote the popular Laneton Parsonage. A Tale for Children, a trilogy published in 1846-48.

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