xt7qjq0stw34_4388 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection Bound volume for Charles Lamb manuscript poem, [Dirge For Him Who Shall Deserve It text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. Bound volume for Charles Lamb manuscript poem, [Dirge For Him Who Shall Deserve It 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_45/Folder_5/Multipage21523.pdf undated 
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Peal accession no. 9560. The manuscript poem was separated from this volume (see Lamb subseries in Manuscripts series). With a bookplate of A. Edward Newton.  Includes a facsimile of a short manuscript by J. Payne Collier and a privately printed sheet by Mr. Newton giving the history of Lamb's manuscript.
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H [S dainty little manuscript has an interest for the writer entirely apart from its value as ,1
Lamb item.
r[‘vVL-nty—tivt. years ago, in London, early in his book—collecting (lays, r1“. writer came
across a bundle of dusty volumes in an old book—shop in the Strand and bought the lot for, as he
remembers, two guineas.
Subsequently, on going through them carefully, he found that he had acquired what appeared to

be quite a valuable little parcel. There were the following:

TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE, Baldwin and Cradock, Fifth Edition, 1831.

LAMB’S PROSE WORKS, 3 volumes, R'onon, 1836.

THE Ll‘iT'l‘l‘iRS ()l“ CHARLES LAB/1B, 2 volumes, Nloxon 1337, with the inscrip—
tion “ To [ l). Collier, Esq. from his friend H. C. Robinson.H

FINAL MEMORIALS ()F CHARLES LAMB, by Taltourd. 2 volumes, 1848.
\Vordsworth’s copy with his signature on the title page of each volume, observing for

the first time that the book was dedicated to him.

Loosely inserted in several of the Volumes were newspaper clippings, a number of pages of
manuscript in Collicr‘s handwriting, a fragment of a letter from lVIary Lamb addressed to Jane
Collier, l’ayne Collier"s mother, and in several of the volumes were notes in Collier’s handwriting
referring to matters in the text, as where, against a reference to Lamb’s essay on “Roast Pig,”
Collier says, in pencil, “ My mother sent the pig to Lamb.” Agairrwhere Tall'ourd refers to an
evening with Lamb saying: “ \Ve mounted to the top story and were soon seated beside a cheerful
fire; hot water and its better adjuncts were soon before us.” Collier writes “Both Lamb and
'l‘altourd died of the ‘ Better Adjuncts.’ ” There were a large number of such pencil notes.

The pages of manuscript in Collier"s heavy and as he calls it “infirm ” hand begin:

_“ In relation to C. Lamb and Southey, Alt. Cosens possesses as interesting a MS. as I know.
It is bound as a small 4 to. but the writing of Lamb, and chiefly by Southey is post Svo. They
seem to have been contributions to an ‘ Annual Anthology ’ published by Cottle of Bristol.”

“The MS. begins with an ‘Advertisement’ in the handwriting of Southey, and it is
followed immediately by a poem in Lamb’s handwriting, headed E/(gy on [1 Sim}! If To/mu'o in ten

stanzas rhiming alternately thus:

It lay before me. on the close grazed grass,
Beside my path, an old Tobacco quid:
And shall I by the mute adviser pass

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Without one serious thought? now Heaven forbid !

Evidently, the next day, Collier copied more of the poem for on another sheet headcd-—~“lnsert
here ‘ A ’ "— he remarks: “ As my hand is steadier to—day I have copied the remaining stanzas."
Elsewhere, referring to iVIr. Cosens’ MS., Collier writes: “ the whole consists of about sixty leaves
chiefly in the handwriting of Southey and it contains , . . productions by Lamb, one a sort of
7m (I’m/nit called The 13bnb‘ei;1iun Bar/let's on the hair-dressing of twelve young men of Christ
Church College, and the other headed Dirge for Him 71/1er S/Ial/ I)t‘i(‘l"vt‘ II”, which he

quotes at length. This, Collier says, “has no signature but the whole is in Lambs” young

 

 clear hand, and itsliows very plainly that he partoolt not only of the poetical but of the political
reeling of~ the time.H

’l'lre signatures are various, Erthuryo, Ryalto, Walter (a name several times erased), S.l). 1796,
etc. and at the end are four [,(wz'r' Isl/(gin and a serious poem by Charles Lamb entitled Living
twirl/mu (If/11,511 f/n' [For/J.

“ How many of these were printed elsewhere, or in Cottle’s ‘ Anthology,’ 1 do not know.

“ I would willingly copy more did not my hand fail me.

J. l’. C."

'l‘wenty years later, in New York one day, George D. Smith, the bookseller, asked the writer
it he would care to buy an interesting volume of Southey KISS. and to my surprise put in my
hand the identical little quarto, which Collier had many years before found so interesting that he
had made excerpts from it. It might not have made such instant appeal to his recollection of his
earlier purchase in London had it not been for an inserted note, almost identical with the one on
the loose slip in his Lamb volume, obviously in Collier’s “ infirm ” hand:

“A highly interesting though not a very curious MS. It is mainly in the handwriting of
Southey, but, what is more to my taste, part of it is the autograph of Charles Lamb when he was
quite a young man: for instance the first poem, and one of the very best, ‘ 021 a Ezzgid (if 'I'o/mtca,’
is by Lamb, written in his neatest and earliest hand. \Vhat is entitled (page 158‘) ‘ 'I'lJe'
lt/Jc'rh'riniun Bar/Jen is also by Lamb. I find nothing by Coleridge, but he was also a contribu-

gor to ‘The Annual Anthology.’ Inever have been able to procure a copy of that book.

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Payne Collier. ’ ’

The signature, “ Payne Collier w, is evidently in the hand of‘the former owner, lVIr. Cosens, who
adds: “ In 1798 or 1799 Charles Lamb contributed to the ‘ Annual Anthology ’ which a Mr.
Cottle a bookseller of Bristol published jointly with Coleridge and Southey.

This manuscript is partly in the handwriting of Southey and was formerly the property of Cottle
of Bristol.”

Upon investigation the writer ascertained that the little \olume of manuscript verse had passed

‘ from Air. Cosens’ possession into the library of Augustin Daly, at whose saleit had been catalogued

as a Southey MS. with small reference to its Lamb interest. Although the price was high the
temptation to buy it was too strong to be resisted.

So after many years the small quarto volume, and the notes which it suggested in the “ infirm ”
hand of Collier, came together in the library of the writer. For him the little productions of Lamb
are at least as valuable and interesting as the Southey contributions, although the number of these
is very largely in excess of those by Lamb.

They have been buried for a century or more in the little quarto volume labeled “ SOUTH EY
MSS.” a long time since the property of “a Mr. (‘ottle of Bristol.H

To extract them and make them available in their present form has been the pleasant labor of

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