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The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb novel. A total of 559 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb.by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb.PREFACE TO THE NEW EDIT
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb.by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb.PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION This edition is the same as that in seven large volumes published between 1903 and 1905, except that it has been revised and amended and arranged in more companion
- 301 C. LAMB.I hope Edith is better; my kindest remembrances to her. You have a good deal of trifling to forgive in this letter.[This is Lamb's first letter to Southey that has been preserved.Probably others came before it. Southey now becomes Lamb's
- 302 LETTER 37 CHARLES LAMB TO ROBERT SOUTHEY Nov. 3, 1798.I have read your Eclogue ["The Wedding"] repeatedly, and cannot call it bald, or without interest; the cast of it, and the design are completely original, and may set people upon thinking: it
- 303 CHARLES LAMB TO ROBERT SOUTHEY [Probably November, 1798.]The following is a second Extract from my Tragedy _that is to be_,--'tis narrated by an old Steward to Margaret, orphan ward of Sir Walter Woodvil;--this, and the Dying Lover I gave you, are th
- 304 This poor fellow (whom I know just enough of to vouch for his strict integrity & worth) has lost two or three employments from illness, which he cannot regain; he was once insane, & from the distressful uncertainty of his livelihood has reason to apprehen
- 305 If you come to town by Ash Wednesday [February 6], you will certainly see Lloyd here--I expect him by that time.My sister Mary was never in better health or spirits than now.[Writing in June, 1799, to Robert Lloyd, Priscilla, his sister, says: "Lamb
- 306 Between this and the next letter should probably come a letter from Lamb to Robert Lloyd, not available for this edition. It seems to follow upon Robert Lloyd's departure from Lamb's house, and remarks that Lamb knows but one being that he could
- 307 LETTER 49 CHARLES LAMB TO S.T. COLERIDGE ? Jan. 23, 1800.Dear Coleridge,--Now I write, I cannot miss this opportunity of acknowledging the obligations myself, and the readers in general of that luminous paper, the "Morning Post," are under to yo
- 308 C. L.Flour has just fallen nine s.h.i.+llings a sack! we shall be all too rich.Tell Charles I have seen his Mamma, and have almost fallen in love with _her_, since I mayn't with Olivia. She is so fine and graceful, a complete Matron-Lady-Quaker. She
- 309 The proof-sheets were those of _Wallenstein_. Henry Sampson Woodfall was the famous printer of the _Letters of Junius_._Christabel_, Coleridge's poem, had been begun in 1797; it was finished, in so far as it was finished, later in the year 1800. It w
- 310 Here should come a letter from Lamb to Robert Lloyd, in which he describes a visit to Gutch's family at Oxford, and mentions his admiration for a fine head of Bishop Taylor in All Souls' Library, which was an inducement to the Oxford visit. He r
- 311 "Eliza Buckingham." Sara Coleridge's message was probably intended for Eliza, a servant at the Buckingham Street lodgings.Lambe was _The Anti-Jacobin's_ idea of Lamb's name; and indeed many persons adhered to it to the end. Mrs. C
- 312 By-the-by, where did you pick up that scandalous piece of private history about the angel and the d.u.c.h.ess of Devons.h.i.+re? If it is a fiction of your own, why truly it is a very modest one _for you_. Now I do affirm that "Lewti" is a very
- 313 By-the-by, I have a sort of recollection that somebody, I think _you_, promised me a sight of Wordsworth's Tragedy. I should be very glad of it just now; for I have got Manning with me, and should like to read it _with him_. But this, I confess, is a
- 314 Lamb's visit to Cambridge was deferred until January 5, 1801.]LETTER 70 CHARLES LAMB TO THOMAS MANNING [P.M. Nov. 3, 1800.]_Ecquid meditatur Archimedes?_ What is Euclid doing? What has happened to learned Trismegist?--Doth he take it in ill part, tha
- 315 LETTER 73 CHARLES LAMB TO WILLIAM G.o.dWIN [No date. Autumn, 1800.]Queries. Whether the best conclusion would not be a solemn judicial pleading, appointed by the king, before himself in person of Antonio as proxy for Roderigo, and Guzman for himself--the
- 316 [Footnote 5: Two _neat_ lines.][Footnote 6: Or _you_.][Footnote 7: Or _our_, as _they_ have altered it.][Footnote 8: Ant.i.thesis.]["As one Tobin's." The rehearsals of "Antonio" were attended by G.o.dwin's friend, John Tobin,
- 317 Manning's reply, dated December, 1800, gives a little information concerning the Edinburgh physician's letter--"that gentleman whose fertile brain can, at a moment's warning, furnish you with 10 Thousand models of a plot--'The gre
- 318 "When thou First camest into the World, as it befalls To new-born Infants, thou didst sleep away Two days: and _Blessings from Thy father's Tongue Then fell upon thee_."The lines were thus undermarked, and then followed "This Pa.s.sage
- 319 [No date. ? April, 1801.]Dear Manning,--I sent to Brown's immediately. Mr. Brown (or Pijou, as he is called by the moderns) denied the having received a letter from you.The one for you he remembered receiving, and remitting to Leadenhall Street; whit
- 320 LETTER 89 CHARLES LAMB TO THOMAS MANNING [P.M. August 31, 1801.]I heard that you were going to China, with a commission from the Wedgwoods to collect hints for their pottery, and to teach the Chinese _perspective_. But I did not know that London lay in yo
- 321 [The point of signing this letter with G.o.dwin's name and adding his address (Lamb, it will be noticed, was then at Margate) is not clear.I place here the following letter, not having any clue as to date, which is immaterial:--]LETTER 92 CHARLES LAM
- 322 I will now transcribe the "Londoner" (No. 1), and wind up all with affection and humble servant at the end.THE LONDONER. No. 1.In compliance with my own particular humour, no less than with thy laudable curiosity, Reader, I proceed to give thee
- 323 "Even less than me." Mr. W. C. Hazlitt gives in _Mary and Charles Lamb_ a vivid impression of Lamb's spare figure. A farmer at Widford, Mr.Charles Tween, himself not a big man, told Mr. Hazlitt that when walking out with Lamb he would place
- 324 Your Wordsworth nuptials (or rather the nuptials of a certain Edmund of yours) fill me with joy in your report. May you prosper, Mary, fortunate beyond compare, and perchance comparable to that ancient Virgin Mary (a comparison more than Caesarean) since
- 325 I will tell you more about Chapman and his peculiarities in my next. I am much interested in him.Yours ever affectionately, and Pi-Pos's.C.L.[Coleridge was just now contributing political essays as well as verse to the _Morning Post_. "Once a Ja
- 326 Accustom yourself to write familiar letters on common subjects to your friends in England, such as are of a moderate understanding. And think about common things more. There's your friend Holcroft now, has written a play. You used to be fond of the d
- 327 33 And look where mantled up in white He sleds it, like the Muscovite.I know him by the port he bears, And his lifeguard of mountaineers.34 Their caps are furr'd with h.o.a.ry frosts, The bravery their cold kingdom boasts; Their spungy plads are milk
- 328 Under this cold marble stone Sleep the sad remains of One, Who, when alive, by few or none 2 Was lov'd, as lov'd she might have been, If she prosp'rous days had seen, Or had thriving been, I ween.3 Only this cold funeral stone Tells, she wa
- 329 LETTER 109 CHARLES LAMB TO S. T. COLERIDGE 27th May, 1803.My dear Coleridge,--The date of my last was one day prior to the receipt of your letter, full of foul omens. I explain, lest you should have thought mine too light a reply to such sad matter. I ser
- 330 LETTER 111 CHARLES LAMB TO JOHN RICKMAN Sat.u.r.day Morning, July 16th, 1803.Dear Rickman,--I enclose you a wonder, a letter from the shades. A dead body wants to return, and be inrolled _inter vivos_. 'Tis a gentle ghost, and in this Galvanic age it
- 331 Lamb's early Merchant Taylors' verses have been lost, but two epigrams that he wrote many years later for the sons of Hessey, the publisher, have been preserved (see the letter to Southey, May 10, 1830).]LETTER 115 CHARLES LAMB TO THOMAS POOLE [
- 332 "Mrs. Reynolds"--Lamb's old schoolmistress and pensioner. Mrs. Jefferies I do not know.]LETTER 118 CHARLES LAMB TO S. T. COLERIDGE [P.M. April 4, 1804.]Mary would send her best love, but I write at office.Thursday [April 5].The 1 came safe.
- 333 Wherefore to day art singing in mine ear Sad songs were made so long ago, my dear?This day I am to be a bride, you know.Why sing sad songs were made so long ago?_Child_."O Mother lay your costly robes aside,"_For you may never be another's
- 334 LETTER 124 CHARLES LAMB TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH [P.M. October 13, 1804.](Turn over leaf for more letters.) Dear Wordsworth--I have not forgot your commissions.But the truth is, and why should I not confess it? I am not plethorically abounding in Cash at thi
- 335 Mrs. Coleridge now had three children--Hartley, Derwent and Sara. We do not know whether or no she stayed with the Lambs, as suggested. Her brother was George Fricker.William Hazlitt's sister was Peggy Hazlitt. His sister-in-law, Mrs.Hazlitt, was the
- 336 "_Praesens ut absens_." Lamb enlarged upon the topic of gifts and giving many years later, in the Popular Fallacy "That we must not look a Gift Horse in the Mouth," 1826, and in his "Thoughts on Presents of Game,"1833.]LETTER
- 337 G.o.d bless you and yours my dear friend.I am yours affectionately M. LAMB.[Dr. Beddoes, who was attending Mrs. Clarkson, would be, I suppose, Thomas Beddoes of Clifton (1760-1808), the father of Thomas Lovell Beddoes and a friend of Coleridge and Southey
- 338 Was Coleridge often with you? or did your brother and Col. argue long arguments, till between the two great arguers there grew a little coolness?--or perchance the mighty friends.h.i.+p between Coleridge and your Sovereign Governor, Sir Alexander Ball, mi
- 339 But to speak seriously. I mean, when we mean [? meet], that we will lay our heads together, and consult and contrive the best way of making the best girl in the world the fine Lady her brother wishes to see her; and believe me, Sarah, it is not so difficu
- 340 Write, I beg, by the return of the post; and as I am very anxious to hear whether you are, as I fear, dissatisfied with me, you shall, if you please, direct my letter to Nurse. Her direction is, Mrs. Grant, at Mr.Smith's, _Maidenhead_, Ram Court, Fle
- 341 Nothing like defining of Terms when we talk. What blunders might I have fallen into of quite inapplicable Criticism, but for this timely explanation.N.B. At the beginning of _Edm._ Spencer (to prevent mistakes) I have copied from my own copy, and primaril
- 342 Returning home from the Inn, we took that to pieces, and ca[n]va.s.sed you, as you know is our usual custom. We agreed we should miss you sadly, and that you had been, what you yourself discovered, _not at all in our way_; and although, if the Post Master
- 343 Dear Rickman,--I send you some papers about a salt-water soap, for which the inventor is desirous of getting a parliamentary reward, like Dr.Jenner. Whether such a project be feasible, I mainly doubt, taking for granted the equal utility. I should suppose
- 344 Martin [Burney] has just been here. My Tales (_again_) and Charles's Farce has made the boy mad to turn Author; and he has written a Farce, and he has made the Winter's Tale into a story; but what Charles says of himself is really true of Martin
- 345 Let me hear from you soon, and do let me hear some [good news,] and don't let me hear of your walking with sprained ancles again; no business is an excuse for making yourself lame.I hope your poor Mother is better, and Aunty and Maid jog on pretty we
- 346 LETTER 157 MARY LAMB TO SARAH STODDART [P.M. October 23, 1806.]My dear Sarah--I thank you a thousand times for the beautiful work you have sent me, I received the parcel from a strange gentleman yesterday.I like the patterns very much, you have quite set
- 347 Mary's Love to all of you--I wouldn't let her write-- Dear Wordsworth, Mr. H. came out last night and failed.I had many fears; the subject was not substantial enough. John Bull must have solider fare than a _Letter_. We are pretty stout about it
- 348 [Lamb has run his pen lightly through "G.o.d bless me," at the beginning of the postscript.The plates to the _Tales from Shakespear_ will be found reproduced in facsimile in Vol. III. of my large edition. They were designed probably by Mulready.
- 349 LETTER 166 MARY LAMB TO SARAH STODDART [P.M. February 12, 1808.]My dear Sarah,--I have sent your letter and drawing off to Wm. Hazlitt's father's in Shrops.h.i.+re, where I conjecture Hazlitt is. He left town on Sat.u.r.day afternoon, without te
- 350 "Young Davy." Afterwards Sir Humphry Davy, and now one of Coleridge's correspondents. He had been awarded the Napoleon prize of 3,000 francs "for his discoveries announced in the _Philosophical Transactions_ for the year 1807."&qu
- 351 Yours truly, C. LAMB.Sat.u.r.day, 12 Mar., 1808.[This is the first letter to Henry Crabb Robinson (1775-1867), whom Lamb was destined to know very intimately, and to whose _Diary_ we are indebted for much of our information concerning the Lambs. Robinson,
- 352 C. LAMB.["The Skeffington." Referring probably to some dramatic scheme in which Sir Lumley Skeffington, an amateur playwright, had tried to engage Lamb's pen. Lamb's share of the speaking pantomime for the Sheridans has vanished. We do
- 353 CHARLES LAMB TO HENRY CRABB ROBINSON [Dated by H. C. R.: May, 1809.]Dear Sir,--Would you be so kind as, when you go to the Times office, to see about an Advertis.e.m.e.nt which My Landlady's Daughter left for insertion about ten days since and has no
- 354 Here should come four letters from Lamb to Charles Lloyd, Senior. They are all printed in _Charles Lamb and the Lloyds_. The first, dated June 13, 1809, contains an interesting criticism of a translation of the twenty-fourth book of the _Iliad_, which Cha
- 355 "The spiteful elder sister." This story is in Grimm, I think."The _Life of Holcroft_." The _Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft_, begun by Holcroft and finished by Hazlitt, although completed in 1810, was not published until 1816.Here should co
- 356 LETTER 187 CHARLES LAMB TO JOHN MATHEW GUTCH [April 9th, 1810.]Dear Gutch,--I did not see your brother, who brought me Wither; but he understood, he said, you were daily expecting to come to town: this has prevented my writing. The books have pleased me e
- 357 began with a reference to _Rosamund Gray_. I quote the pa.s.sage containing the turgid example.Let us return to an instance of common life. I quote it with reluctance, not so much for its absurdity as that the expression in one place will strike at first
- 358 She promised to call on me before she left town but the weather having been very bad I suppose has prevented her. She received the letter which came through my brother's hands and I have learned from Mrs. Montagu that all your commissions are execute
- 359 My dear Sarah,--I have taken a large sheet of paper, as if I were going to write a long letter; but that is by no means my intention, for I only have time to write three lines to notify what I ought to have done the moment I received your welcome letter.
- 360 Yours truly, M. LAMB.LETTER 201 CHARLES LAMB TO WILLIAM HAZLITT (_Added to same letter_) Dear Hazlitt, I cannot help accompanying my sister's congratulations to Sarah with some of my own to you on this happy occasion of a man child being born-- Delighted
- 361 LETTER 205 CHARLES LAMB TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH [Dated at end: August 9, 1814.]Dear Wordsworth, I cannot tell you how pleased I was at the receit of the great Armful of Poetry which you have sent me, and to get it before the rest of the world too! I have go
- 362 26th August, 1814.Let the hungry soul rejoice: there is corn in Egypt. Whatever thou hast been told to the contrary by designing friends, who perhaps inquired carelessly, or did not inquire at all, in hope of saving their money, there is a stock of "Remo
- 363 Your sister Ann will tell you that your friend Louisa is going to France. Miss Skepper is out of town, Mrs. Reynolds desires to be remembered to you, and so does my neighbour Mrs. Norris, who was your doctress when you were unwell, her three little childr
- 364 Dr Sargus--This is to give you notice that I have parted with the Cottage to Mr. Grig Jun'r. to whom you will pay rent from Michaelmas last. The rent that was due at Michaelmas I do not wish you to pay me. I forgive it you as you may have been at some ex
- 365 "Those scoundrels." Princ.i.p.ally the critic of the _Edinburgh_, Jeffrey, but Wordsworth's a.s.sailants generally."That subst.i.tution of a sh.e.l.l." In the original draft of "The Blind Highland Boy" the adventurous voyage was made in A Household
- 366 Sir Samuel Romilly (1757-1818), the lawyer and law reformer, was the great opponent of capital punishment for small offences.In the preface to the 1802 edition of _Lyrical Ballads_, etc., Wordsworth had quoted Dr. Johnson's prosaic lines:-- I put my hat
- 367 LETTER 220 CHARLES LAMB TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH [P.M. August 9, 1815.]9th Aug. 1815.Dear Wordsworth, We acknowlege with pride the receit of both your hand writings, and desire to be ever had in kindly remembrance by you both and by Dorothy. Miss Hutchinson
- 368 Coleridge's literary plans were destined to change. The _Biographia Literaria_ was published alone in 1817, and _Sibylline Leaves_ alone later in the same year.--"Remorse" had been acted at Calne in June for the second time, a previous visit having bee
- 369 Dear old friend and absentee,--This is Christmas-day 1815 with us; what it may be with you I don't know, the 12th of June next year perhaps; and if it should be the consecrated season with you, I don't see how you can keep it. You have no turkeys; you w
- 370 N.B. Nothing said above to the contrary but that I hold the personal presence of the two mentioned potent spirits at a rate as high as any, but I pay dearer, what amuses others robs me of myself, my mind is positively discharged into their greater current
- 371 You ask how Coleridge maintains himself. I know no more than you do.Strange to say, I have seen him but once since he has been at Highgate, and then I met him in the street. I have just been reading your kind letter over again and find you had some doubt
- 372 CHARLES LAMB TO BARRON FIELD Aug. 31st, 1817.My dear Barren,--The bearer of this letter so far across the seas is Mr.Lawrey, who comes out to you as a missionary, and whom I have been strongly importuned to recommend to you as a most worthy creature by Mr
- 373 CHARLES LAMB TO DOROTHY WORDSWORTH (_Same letter._) Dear Miss Wordsworth, Here we are, transplanted from our native soil. I thought we never could have been torn up from the Temple. Indeed it was an ugly wrench, but like a tooth, now 'tis out and I am ea
- 374 "Christabel's father."Each matin bell, the Baron saith, Knells us back to a world of death.Part II., lines 1 and 2."W. H. goes on lecturing." Hazlitt was delivering a course of lectures on the English poets at the Surrey Inst.i.tution."'Gentleman'
- 375 LETTER 246 CHARLES LAMB TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH [_This letter is written in black and red ink, changing with each line._][P.M. April 26, 1819.]Dear Wordsworth, I received a copy of Peter Bell a week ago, and I hope the author will not be offended if I say I
- 376 LETTER 248 CHARLES LAMB TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH [P.M. June 7, 1819.]My dear Wordsworth, you cannot imagine how proud we are here of the DEDICATION. We read it twice for once that we do the poem--I mean all through--yet Benjamin is no common favorite--there
- 377 To Miss Kelly You are not, Kelly, of the common strain, That stoop their pride and female honour down To please that many-headed beast _the town_, And vend their lavish smiles and tricks for gain; By fortune thrown amid the actors' train, You keep your n
- 378 CHARLES LAMB TO THOMAS HOLCROFT, JR.[No date. Autumn, 1819.]Dear Tom, Do not come to us on Thursday, for we are moved into country lodgings, tho' I am still at the India house in the mornings. See Marshall and Captain Betham _as soon as ever you can_. I
- 379 In the contour of scull certainly I discern something paternal. But whether in all respects the future man shall transcend his father's fame, Time the trier of geniuses must decide. Be it p.r.o.nounced peremptorily at present, that w.i.l.l.y is a well-ma
- 380 I have been in my time a great epistolary scribbler; but the pa.s.sion, and with it the facility, at length wears out; and it must be pumped up again by the heavy machinery of duty or grat.i.tude, when it should run free.I have read your "Fall of Cambria
- 381 "You shall soon see." Lamb's first reference to the _Elia_ essays, alluding here to "The South-Sea House."Here should come a letter from Lamb to Hazlitt. Lamb says that his sister is ill again and that the last thing she read was Hazlitt's "Thursda
- 382 EPODE II The Voice had ceas'd, the Phantoms fled, Yet still I gasp'd and reel'd with dread.And even when the dream of night Renews the vision to my sight, Cold sweat-damps gather on my limbs, My Ears throb hot, my eye-b.a.l.l.s start, My Brain with hor
- 383 [Footnote 11: Descriptive Poems, such as Leusden hill, by Thomas Crowe; and the Malvern hills, by Joseph Cottle.][Footnote 12: Roscoe's Reign of Leo de Medici is interspersed with poetry. Roscoe has also translated, THE NURSE, a poem, from the Italian of
- 384 The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb.Vol. 6.by Charles and Mary Lamb.THE LETTERS OF CHARLES AND MARY LAMB 1821-1834 LETTER 264 CHARLES LAMB TO DOROTHY WORDSWORTH [P.M. January 8, 1821.]Mary perfectly approves of the appropriat'n of the _feathers_, and wish
- 385 _Midnight_."G.o.d bless you, dear Charles Lamb, I am dying; I feel I have not many weeks left."[Master Mathew is in Ben Jonson's "Every Man in His Humour."Lamb's "Beaumont and Fletcher" is in the British Museum. The note quoted by Lamb is not ther
- 386 I am sorry the London Magazine is going to be given up.[I a.s.sume the date of this note to be summer, 1821, because it was then that Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, the _London Magazine's_ first publishers, gave it up. The reason was the death of John Scott, th
- 387 Those notes of Bryant have caused the greatest disorder in my brain-pan.Well, I will not flatter when I say that we have had two or three long evening's _good reading_ out of your kind present.I will say nothing of the tenderest parts in your own little
- 388 [Oct. 27, 1821.]I Come, Grimalkin! Dalston, near Hackney, 27th Oct'r. One thousand 8 hundred and twenty one years and a wee-bit since you and I were redeemed. I doubt if _you_ are done properly yet.[A further letter to Ayrton, dated from Dalston, October
- 389 C. LAMB.No hurry at all for Tourneur.Tuesday 7 May '22.[William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882), afterwards known as a novelist, was then articled to a Manchester solicitor, but had begun his literary career. The book to which Lamb refers was called _The
- 390 LETTER 289 CHARLES LAMB TO JOHN CLARE India House, 31 Aug., 1822.Dear Clare--I thank you heartily for your present. I am an inveterate old Londoner, but while I am among your choice collections, I seem to be native to them, and free of the country. The qu
- 391 Our joint hearty remembrances to both of you. Yours as ever, C. LAMB.[Frank was Francis John Field, Barron Field's brother, in the India House.Sh.e.l.ley was drowned on July 8, 1822.Talma was Francois Joseph Talma (1763-1826), the great French tragedian.
- 392 Dear Haydon, Poor G.o.dwin has been turned out of his house and business in Skinner Street, and if he does not pay two years' arrears of rent, he will have the whole stock, furniture, &c., of his new house (in the Strand) seized when term begins. We are
- 393 LETTER 299 CHARLES LAMB TO JOHN HOWARD PAYNE Wednesday, 13 November, '22.Dear P.--Owing to the inconvenience of having two lodgings, I did not get your letter quite so soon as I should. The India House is my proper address, where I am sure for the fore p
- 394 LETTER 302 CHARLES LAMB TO WALTER WILSON E.I.H. 16 dec. 22.Dear Wilson _Lightening_ I was going to call you-- You must have thought me negligent in not answering your letter sooner.But I have a habit of never writing letters, but at the office--'tis so m
- 395 "Cleverness is the bane." See Lamb's little article on "The New Acting"in Vol. I.The Blue Girl seems to refer to the lady mentioned at the end of the first letter to Payne.Angelica is in Congreve's "Love for Love"; Millamant in his "Way of the Wo
- 396 Yours truly C. LAMB.8 Jan. '23.[This note is sent to me by Mr. G. Dunlop of Kilmarnock. It is the only note to Aders, a friend of Crabb Robinson, to whose house Lamb often went for talk and whist. Aders had a fine collection of German pictures.See the ve
- 397 Are there more Last words of him? Pray, how may I venture to return it to Mr. Shewell at Ipswich? I fear to send such a Treasure by a Stage Coach. Not that I am afraid of the Coachman or the Guard _reading_ it.But it might be lost. Can you put me in a way
- 398 LETTER 314 CHARLES LAMB TO BERNARD BARTON [P.M. 5 April 1823.]Dear Sir--You must think me ill mannered not to have replied to your first letter sooner, but I have an ugly habit of aversion from letter writing, which makes me an unworthy correspondent. I h
- 399 LETTER 317 (_Fragment_) CHARLES LAMB TO MISS HUTCHINSON (?) A propos of birds--the other day at a large dinner, being call'd upon for a toast, I gave, as the best toast I knew, "Wood-c.o.c.k toast," which was drunk with 3 cheers.Yours affect'y C. LAMB
- 400 Hastings, at Mrs. Gibbs, York Cottage, Priory, No. 4. [June 18, 1823.]My dear Friend,--Day after day has pa.s.sed away, and my brother has said, "I will write to Mrs. [? Mr.] Norris to-morrow," and therefore I am resolved to write to _Mrs. Norris_ to-da