Barry Cornwall was the pen name of Bryan Waller Procter. Also enclosed: To My Child, poem (mssHM 3103); Cornwall letter to Handleby (mssHM 3104). King & Slave (mssHM 3105); Grief, (mssHM 3106), poems by Adelaide Anne Procter, daughter of Bryan Waller Procter.
Barry Cornwall was the pseudonym for Bryan Waller Procter. The three volume memoir is largely in the handwriting of Procter, with his corrections throughout. Portions are in the handwriting of Mrs. Procter; some leaves are damaged. Two portraits of Lamb are inserted; biographical sketches of Procter laid in at the end. The memoir was disbound by Huntington Library staff and Box 4 contains binding remnants.
This letter, written to fellow writer Paul Zall, chiefly talks about British poet Barry Cornwall and Armour's book Barry Cornwall: a biography of Bryan Waller Procter. Armour also talks a little bit about some of his other published works. The letter is written on "Claremont Men's College Memorandum" letterhead.
