9 Letters to Joseph Stenson concerning John Clare

Item author: William F Knight
Item date: 1844-47
Grant Value: 200
Item cost pre-decimal: 1,820
Item date acquired: 1970
Item institution: Northamptonshire Public Libraries
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire

Letters largely concern John Clare the poet and contain copies of 13 hitherto unpublished or variant poems. Also includes three letters from Clare to Knight complaining that he cannot leave the Asylum where Knight became House Steward in 1845

Item Provenance
Sothebys June 1970, Lots 271-275