xt7qjq0stw34_664 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 John Clare letter to Thomas Hood, with two manuscript poems text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. John Clare letter to Thomas Hood, with two manuscript poems 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_6/Folder_96/Multipage2206.pdf 1828 August 3 1828 1828 August 3 
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  Peal accession no. 11057. Includes a transcript and a summary of the letter.
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strel, in return for which Lamb sent him his Works in 2 vols,
with the autograph inscription: "For Mr Clare, with G. Lamb's
kindest remembrances.” In due time these were followed by the
Elia volume inscribed: "Mr John Glare with Elia’s regards".
Lamb wrote in a kindly strain to Clare, and Clare penned his
poem "To Charles Lamb, Esq."

 

Hood, & Glare, & Lamb;

See the Ms e cuttings, Vol purchased when in London from El-
kin Mathews. On p 73 e on, is the "Widow” with Lamb’s sign ture
suffixed (appended). Se Lamb’s correspondence, whether thi /not
Tom Hood's production. *Another contribution signed 0. Lamb in
same volume, "The Gem".1829. (Letters 11, 21?, Lamb writes Hood
in Hood's name addressing him as "Dear Lamb” re the Widow.)

*Also in this same gem, are the lines "On an Infant Dying as
soon as Born.” This wassent by Lamb to Hood & his wife on such
a loss to the Hoods_e See Hood’s Memorials Vol 1, 18,19. See
Ainger°s Poems, Pla , & Essa¥s, 385 and 385 Malison. See re
Hood & scraps for him, Ainger s Lamb Letters, ii, 198.

(Marginal note) What the American (Adrian H. Joline) in his
book about autograph collecting, says about Clara‘s.poetry,
not up to much — is about right.

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In writing on Hood & Lamb there is afit opportunity for bring-
ing in "Literary wrivolities" re Lamb‘s (Elia's) death as per
Lend. Mag. under Hood’s sub editorship (?the date of Hood’s
sub editing) Look up Westwood's Notes &.Queries letter for a
description of Hood - Methodist minister without a smile all the
time his every word was a pun - or some such words. See Pat-
more's M Friend. 1 19 for descr of Lamb as a Methodist parson
in appearance (3» was Hood)

John Clare e Lamb in Janus Weatherbounds Valedictory paper in
London Mag, Jan-June 1823, 48-9, 158.

For correspondence with Sir Walter Scott re The Gem see Hood's
"Literary Reminiscences" (Works ii, 391)

This enclosed sonnet "The Gipsy's Matison“ was written for
the Gem but declined on the plea that it would shock all the
mothers; see Ainger's Letters M ii, 217 & elsewhere - also
Bohn s Letters, Index. The poem "Epistle to Elia“ quoted in
"Life of Clare" in Elton°s Bozhood, 96; Lamb also in the same
author's poem to Clare.

Ty Hood's connection with Clare. Did'nt he "show him round"
in London, ﬁc

Ty article somewhere on "Peasant Poets"- Cunningham & Clare
(? in London Magazine)

 

 The Gem.

You wish to know what I find to interest me in this little gem of
1829, edited by Tom Hood! A great deal, for it brings together in
a very definite manner three of our friends of the old London Maga—
zine, to wit: Lamb, Hood, and Clare; and serves to focus some lit—
tle pleasantries associated with their names.

The last pages of this giterary Annual are occupied by a poem by
John Clare, in six stanzas, entitled "To the Memory of * * * * *."
Inserted within the first cover of the copy before me, with an en-
graving on steel of the portrait of the poet by Hilton, is the orig-
inal MS of these verses, in Clara's autograph, together with the let-
ter which accompanies them addressed to Thomas Hood, Esq, 8 Robert
Street, Adelphi, London, dated August 3rd 1828, which runs thus:

v "My dear Hood, I am not able to write anything now & have sent these
two things written a good while ago so that you may chuse which you
please — send the first rejected Poem to my friend Mrs E. L. Emmer-
son 20 Stratford Place Oxford Street by the Twopenny Post. I am sorry
to put you to so much trouble and expense in postage. Yours sincerely
John Clare."

The other of "these two things" is a poem of seventy lines, headed
"Nelson and the Nile", the original MS of which rests here in my Egg,
together with the verses printed by Hood - but not without editing;
for Glareis poem here in MS extends to eleven stanzas, six only of
which appeared in the gem. Hood also saw fit to omit the quatrain
of Montgomery's with which Glare had prefaced his own lines:

"With her life's little hour
Passed like the fragrance of a flower,
That leaves upon the vernal wind
Sweetness we ne‘er again may find.”

(Clara's own composition, by the way, is entirely guiltless of
punctuation)

Mrs Emmerson, it will be remembered, was the handsome, graceful,
and accomplished lady to whom Lord Radstock took Glare on his arri—
val in London in March 1820. In addition to being in easy circump
stances and occupying a good social position, Mrs Emmerson was of
refined and poetic tastes, and extremely generous to young poets
and artists. Clare found in her a tender and true friend and a firm
believer in his genius. She did all in her power to assist him pe-
cuniarily, and by cheery advice and friendly rebuke. Clare posses-
sed at one time nearly three hundred of her letters to him. To her
he was "dear Jonny”. His letters in return were what one would ra-
ther expect from a bucolic poet unversed in the ways of the world;
their "wildness and Platonic(?) passion" became at last so absurd
that Mrs Emmerson had to request the return of her portrait. But
Clare gradually got some true idea of his position and mended his
ways in this direction for we find him subsequently arriving at Mrs
Emmerson's house carrying his belongings in his handkerchief. The
end of it all was insanity and a lunatic asylum for poor Glare un—
til kindly death came to smooth his brow, whispering the while of a
peace that was new to him.

The peasant poet found many friends and considerable favour among
the literary men of his day, Charles Lamb among the number. In 1822
Clare sent Lamb presentation—copies of his foams and Village Min—