Letter from Charles Lamb to John Clare mb-code 1192952 Crater and Hydra

Crater and Hydra

Portrait of an American Indian

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the mother and father are sitting in front of the fire consolling themselves with a bottle of alcohol while the children are anxiously watching the family possessions being removed

Letter from Charles Lamb to John Clare mb-code 1192952 Crater and HydraLetter 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).