Autograph Letters Signed from Mary Cowden Clarke to Various Recipients


Book Description

Many concern her concordance to Shakespeare; others refer to her famous friends, especially Keats, Lamb, Leigh Hunt, and Gounod (28). (39) includes an autograph copy of one of her sonnets, and (33) and (56) include sheets from the manuscript of the concordance.







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.