Two Manuscript letters and one sonnet

Item author: John Clare
Item date: not given
Grant Value: £1,038
Item cost: £4,113
Item date acquired: 1993
Item institution: Northamptonshire Public Libraries
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire

Both letters written by Clare to his home in Northborough, one during a visit to London, one in his asylum period, the last known from his hand. The sonnet is an early version of a published poem (which is not recorded in AR). The collection also included the MSS of Blunden's life of Clare.

Item Provenance
Collection of Edmund Blunden