Thou Glorious Earth -- Oh, God and Didst Thou Mean


Book Description

Correspondents: W.C. Bennett, [Edward] Moxon, Samuel Timmins, Dawson Turner, J. Reynell Wreford, and an unidentified person. Most items to Bennett, (1-10) praise his poems; several mention Leigh Hunt and John Keats; (13-16) concern the Clarke concordance to Shakespeare; (17) contains 3 newspaper articles, 1847-1851, about the sale of Shakespeare's Birthplace. Enclosed in (4) is a printed poem by Bennett, entitled "Thou, O God, art love." Also includes a letter from J.P. Collier to Cowden Clarke, April 18, 1845, endorsed by Clarke.













Autograph Letters Signed from Robert Clarke to John Pritt Harley


Book Description

Both concern his friend Charles Kean. In (1) he writes of the possibility of Kean marrying, and in (2) he mentions that Kean has written him from America to send a prompt book of Lear as acted by Macready.







Autograph Letter Signed from John S. Clark, London, to William Winter


Book Description

Clarke writes that he and many here are charmed with "Thistledown." Refers to their good friend "Joe" (pencil annotation indicates reference to Joseph Jefferson). Year from pencil annotation on letter.