Lamb, Charles (1775-1834) to Edward Moxon
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00496.185 Author/Creator: Lamb, Charles (1775-1834) Place Written: [s.l.] Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 23 December 1833 Pagination: 1 p. : address : docket ; 31.8 x 22.4 cm. Order a Copy
Edits one of Thomas Pringle's poems.
Lamb was a British essayist. Moxon was a publisher and verse writer. Pringle was a Scottish poet and abolitionist.
[Draft Excerpt:]
I can suggest no improvements, but two insignificant ones. page 9 I cannot relish the phrase "pet fawn." The word pet is singularly distasteful to me. Besides being feminine (girlish rather) it is used as a nurseling, bred up by hand, taken to; but here the black boy sees to be rather the pet, and the animal the patroness. "Fond Fawn" perhaps. I do not know the general title of your Book, but as it seems calculated for Sierra Leone, or the Plantations, I would suggest, "Nigrum Verses" and wish it a whiter fate than my "Album Verses"....
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