Jun 16, 2022 - Sale 2609

Sale 2609 - Lot 246

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
LAMB, CHARLES. Autograph Letter Signed, "ci-devant Elia [formerly Elia]," to publishers John Taylor and James Augustus Hessey, requesting that no more copies of the Elia essays be sent to this address and that they instead be sent to 20 Russell Street in Covent Garden [his home address]. 1/2 page, 4to; faint bleedthrough from postmark on verso affecting text, address panel on verso with remnants of red wax seal, folds, faint offsetting. Np, 17 December 1822 [from postmark]
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"For God's sake send me no more Elias here. I shall have to give away 50 if you do. Oblige me by sending the remainder 10 [sic] to 20 Russell St. Cov. G."