Letter from Charles Lamb to John Clare mb-width 5103 The investiture of the Prince

The investiture of the Prince of Wales

Heidelberg Castle

Sauerbrey Sculps'

Senior Physician to the London Hospital

Letter from Charles Lamb to John Clare mb-width 5103 The investiture of the PrinceLetter from Charles Lamb to John Clare, 31st August 1822. Letter written from India House by Lamb to John Clare the peasant poet, thanking him for a present of his poems and criticising his too frequent use of provincial phrases, with a recipe at the end for the cooking of frogs. From the second series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I V. (London, 1899).