1-272-861 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Letter 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).