Recollections of Writers
Douglas Jerrold to Mary Cowden Clarke, 19 October 1849
October 19th, 1849, Putney.
My dear Mrs. Clarke,—Will you comply with
the wish of my correspondent? The Yankees,
it appears, are suspicious folks. I thought them Arcadians.—Truly yours,
Robert Balmanno (1779-1861)
Born in Aberdeen, he was editor of the
London Literary Gazette
before emigrating to New York before 1831, from whence he corresponded with the Cowden
Clarkes; Mary Cowden Clarke's letters to him were published in 1902 as
Letters to an Enthusiast.
Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke [née Novello] (1809-1898)
The daughter of the musician Vincent Novello, she married Charles Cowden Clarke in 1828
and wrote works on Shakespeare, including
The Complete Concordance to
Shakespeare (1845).
Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857)
English playwright and miscellaneous writer; he made his reputation with the play
Black-eyed Susan (1829) and contributed to the
Athenaeum,
Blackwood's, and
Punch.
