Letter from Charles Lamb to John Clare mb-code 1192952 The Queen visits Congleton

The Queen visits Congleton

Portrait of an American Indian

Crater and Hydra

Like many cars of the period

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 The Queen visits CongletonLetter 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).