
Luke Batterham
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The recipient, a distinguished French man of letters who had settled in England, was married to the children's author and translator Clara de Chatelain, who was at this time suffering from insanity (and was to die a few months later). De Chatelain's Le Conte d'Hiver includes at pp. 193-4 'My Epitaph' which he 'intended to be placed on my tomb'.