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‣ Preface
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX
John Keats
Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
Leigh Hunt
Douglas Jerrold
Charles Dickens
Index
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RECOLLECTIONS OF WRITERS.




BY

CHARLES AND MARY COWDEN CLARKE,

AUTHORS OF “SHAKESPEARE-CHARACTERS,” “MOLIKRE-CHARACTERS,”
“CARMINA MINIMA,” “RICHES OF CHAUCER,” “TALES FROM CHAUCER,”
“ADAM THE GARDENER,” “THE COMPLETE CONCORDANCE TO SHAKESPEARE,”
“GIRLHOOD OF SHAKESPEARE’S HEROINES,” ETC.




WITH LETTERS OF
CHARLES LAMB, LEIGH HUNT,
DOUGLAS JERROLD, AND CHARLES DICKENS;

AND A

PREFACE BY MARY COWDEN CLARKE.







LONDON:

SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON,
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET.
1878.

[All rights reserved.]
PREFACE.


A portion of these “Recollections” appeared in the Gentleman’s Magazine; but appeared there in imperfect form. They were written by the Author-couple happily together. One of the wedded pair has quitted this earthly life; and the survivor now puts the “Recollections” into complete and collected form, happy at least in this, that she feels she is thereby fulfilling a wish of her lost other self.

The earliest and best of these “Recollections” (the one on John Keats, written entirely by the beloved hand that is gone) gave rise to the rest. Friends were so pleased and interested by the schoolfellow’s recollections of the poet, that they asked for other recollections of writers known to both husband and wife. The task was one of mingled pain and pleasure; but it was performed—
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—like so many others undertaken by them—in happy companionship, and this made the pleasure greater than the pain.

Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke may with truth be held in tender remembrance by their readers as among the happiest of married lovers for more than forty-eight years, writing together, reading together, working together, enjoying together the perfection of loving, literary consociation; and kindly sympathy may well be felt for her who is left to singly subscribe herself,

Her readers’ faithful servant,

Mary Cowden Clarke.

Villa Novello,
Genoa, 1878.
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