xt7qjq0stw34_2479 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 Edward Verrall Lucas letter from Ernest Dressel North text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. Edward Verrall Lucas letter from Ernest Dressel North 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_24/Folder_27/Multipage8417.pdf 1901 March 16 1901 1901 March 16 
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Peal accession no. 8803a.
 section false xt7qjq0stw34_2479 xt7qjq0stw34 CHARLES SCRIBNER‘S SONS
PUBLISHERS
[SB-.157 FIFTH AVENUE,
BETWEEN ammo 2259 STREETS.

WEEK
Hotel Iroquois, Buffalo,

March 16, 1901.
Mr. E. V. Lucas,
#86 Great Portland St.,
_London, Eng.
Dear Sir:
Your curteous note of Feb. 22, reach-
es me here in this city on Lake Erie where

I am away from my desk and surroundings

for a brief time. I am so far from.resent—~

ing your letter that I take great pleasure
in starting even a brief correspondenie
with any body who lovesfiéaint Charles, as
Thackery calls him. Concerning your
questions I have to say this, that I was
asked by Messers. Archibald Constable & Co
about two years ago, to edit an edition

of Lambs works for them but, upon careful

inquiry,I found that there were some
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matters still in COpyright, notably letter

and.notes, etc., that would at best make
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their edition a manuscniptaded onepand I

therefore decided that I did not care to

have my name associated with any such edi-

tion.

Since that time, as you know,Canon
Ainger has edited the new, and I am bound
to sayjdefinite edition of Lamb in 12
volumns published by M ssers. McMilIXan &
00.. I cannot see,therefore, where there
is room for another edition. If y_u can
satisfy me on.this point I will be glad

u
to cummggcate with you further.

—/T*i wConcern. g your question about the

original manuscri t
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country, I have carefully copied every

.letters, etc. in this

letter that has come upon my horizon for

theilast twenty years, and have in my

"épbssession careful manuscript copies of all

"t \‘11 '5 “

the letters owned by Augustin paly,)gsswell
43“ ,0

as many otherS. Strangely enough in this

n

 

 city of Buffalo, in what is known as the
"Gluck Collection? is the original manu—

” Zudbun‘
script of Lamb's Theses, Kuadem, Theolo-

gicae:las ywu knowpthese were quoted in a
letter to Southey July 28, 1798, as well
as in Cottles'"Remincences;’1%bleridge,
and Southey? The text varies slightly from
that printed by Cottle. I enclose herewith,
an exact transcript, puncatation, spelling,
etc., just as Lamb wrote it. /3‘4Q9d4/flfi;
7Vajfii I have in my possession what seems to
me an interesting lot of data relating to
the whereabouts of Lambs' books that were
imported and sold tfiuZhis country by
Bartlett and Welford in 1846; I mstelf
having bought and sold with a copy of
Chaucer\n "FullwAnnotation?" etc.
Frankly)I am bound to say,that the
material I have in hand has a financial
value agé I have been collecting it for

some time with the view of some day incor—

porating it in a volumfiAwith some such

title as "Charles Lamb in America" embody-
ing some unpublished letters, etc.

If Messers. Methuen & Co. are dis—
posed to make me a definite offer for my
material and have sfibh notes, data, as I
can-furnish, I would be glad to consider
the matter but, I cannot see my way clear
to handing over-to them such material with
out some compensation.

As you know)l have long been, a devot
ee of Lamb,and because of my relation to
him have been considered in this country,
at least, an authority, I have much mater-
ial to addgtb‘the bfiggraphy which I publis

had in Martins "In the.Foot—prints of Chas

u
: Lamb, some years ago.

Pray do not consider your request as
refused absolutely, but simply held in
obeyance until I shall hear from you again
The manuscript ofuJohn Woodvihlt I bought

and sold but, as you are aware‘all the

A6 literary importance was used in an article

 

 CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
PUBLISHERS
153457 FIFTH AVENUE,
BETWEEN 21,5“er 22“? STREETS.

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