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From Dawsey Adams, Guernsey, Channel Islands, to JulietMiss Juliet Ashton
81 Oakley Street
Chelsea
London SW3
12th January 1946
Dear Miss Ashton,
My name is Dawsey Adams, and I live on my farm in St Martin’s Parish, Guernsey. I know of you
because I have an old book that once belonged to you – The Selected Essays of Elia, by an author
whose name in real life was Charles Lamb. Your name and address were written inside the front cover.
I will speak plain – I love Charles Lamb. My own book says Selected, so I wondered if that meant he
had written other things to choose from? These are the pieces I want to read, and though the Germans
are gone now, there aren’t any bookshops left in Guernsey.
I want to ask a kindness of you. Could you send me the name and address of a bookshop in London?
I would like to order more of Charles Lamb’s writings by post. I would also like to ask if anyone has ever
written his life story, and if they have, could a copy be found for me? For all his bright and turning mind, I
think Mr Lamb must have had a great sadness in his life.
Charles Lamb made me laugh during the German Occupation, especially when he wrote about the
roast pig. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society came into being because of a roast pig
we had to keep secret from the German soldiers, so I feel a kinship to Mr Lamb.
I am sorry to bother you, but I would be sorrier still not to know about him, as his writings have made
me his friend.
Hoping not to trouble you,
Dawsey Adams
P.S. My friend Mrs Maugery bought a pamphlet that once belonged to you, too. It is called Was There a
Burning Bush? A Defence of Moses and the Ten Commandments
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