WorkCharles Lamb

“Lines to a Friend on his Marriage" (poem; date of composition uncertain; from Lamb's collected works)”

Charles Lamb (1775–1834) · poem; date of composition uncertain; from Lamb's collected works

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Documented 1839

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“Lines to a friend on his marriage. C. Lamb. What makes a happy wedlock. What has Fate Not given to thee in thy well chosen Mate?”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
Substantial multi-line quoted passage from Lamb's poem.

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

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Journal April 1839

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“Lines to a friend on his marriage. / C. Lamb. / What makes a happy wedlock - What has Fate / Not given to thee in thy well chosen Mate? / Good sense, good humor.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal April 1839." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (Box A); Box 5 (99).

Fuller copies out a poem attributed to 'C. Lamb' under the title 'Lines to a friend on his marriage,' beginning 'What makes a happy wedlock — What has Fate / Not given to thee in thy well chosen Mate?' The poem appears twice in the journal (pp. 30–31 marked as duplicate).