Yours, every third Wednesday,

C.L.

[Talfourd states that the note is in answer to a letter enclosing a list of candidates for a Widow's Fund Society, for which he was entitled to vote. A Mrs. Southey headed the list.

Here, according to Mr. Hazlitt's dating, should come a note from Lamb to Mrs. Randal Norris, belonging to November, in which Lamb says that he found Mary on his return no worse and she is now no better. He sends all his nonsense that he can scrape together and hopes the young ladies will like "Amwell" (Mrs. Leicester's School).]



LETTER 612

CHARLES LAMB TO MR. CHILDS

Monday. Church Street, EDMONTON (not Enfield, as you erroneously direct yours). [? Dec., 1834.]

Dear Sir,—The volume which you seem to want, is not to be had for love or money. I with difficulty procured a copy for myself. Yours is gone to enlighten the tawny Hindoos. What a supreme felicity to the author (only he is no traveller) on the Ganges or Hydaspes (Indian streams) to meet a smutty Gentoo ready to burst with laughing at the tale of Bo-Bo! for doubtless it hath been translated into all the dialects of the East. I grieve the less, that Europe should want it. I cannot gather from your letter, whether you are aware that a second series of the Essays is published by Moxon, in Dover-street, Piccadilly, called "The Last Essays of Elia," and, I am told, is not inferior to the former. Shall I order a copy for you, and will you accept it? Shall I lend you, at the same time, my sole copy of the former volume (Oh! return it) for a month or two? In return, you shall favour me with the loan of one of those Norfolk-bred grunters that you laud so highly; I promise not to keep it above a day. What a funny name Bungay is! I never dreamt of a correspondent thence. I used to think of it as some Utopian town or borough in Gotham land. I now believe in its existence, as part of merry England!

[Some lines scratched out.]

The part I have scratched out is the best of the letter. Let me have your commands.

CH. LAMB, alias ELIA.

[Talfourd thus explains this letter: "In December, 1834, Mr. Lamb received a letter from a gentleman, a stranger to him—Mr. Childs of Bungay, whose copy of Elia had been sent on an Oriental voyage, and who, in order to replace it, applied to Mr. Lamb." Mr. Childs was a printer. His business subsequently became that of Messrs. R.&R. Clark, which still flourishes.

This letter practically disposes of the statement made by more than one bibliographer that a second edition of Elia was published in 1833. The tale of Bo-Bo is in the "Dissertation on Roast Pig."

Lamb sent Mr. Childs a copy of John Woodvil, in which he wrote:—]



LETTER 613

FROM THE AUTHOR

In great haste, the Pig was faultless,—we got decently merry after it and chirpt and sang "Heigh! Bessy Bungay!" in honour of the Sender. Pray let me have a line to say you got the Books; keep the 1st vol.—two or three months, so long as it comes home at last.



LETTER 614

CHARLES LAMB TO MRS. GEORGE DYER

Dec. 22nd, 1834.

Dear Mrs. Dyer,—I am very uneasy about a Book which I either have lost or left at your house on Thursday. It was the book I went out to fetch from Miss Buffam's, while the tripe was frying. It is called Phillip's Theatrum Poetarum; but it is an English book. I think I left it in the parlour. It is Mr. Cary's book, and I would not lose it for the world. Pray, if you find it, book it at the Swan, Snow Hill, by an Edmonton stage immediately, directed to Mr. Lamb, Church-street, Edmonton, or write to say you cannot find it. I am quite anxious about it. If it is lost, I shall never like tripe again.

With kindest love to Mr. Dyer and all,

Yours truly,

C. LAMB.

[In the life of H.F. Cary by his son we read: "He [Lamb] had borrowed of my father Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum, which was returned by Lamb's friend, Mr. Moxon, with the leaf folded down at the account of Sir Philip Sydney." Mr. Cary acknowledged the receipt of the book by the following

LINES TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES LAMB

So should it be, my gentle friend; Thy leaf last closed at Sydney's end. Thou too, like Sydney, wouldst have given The water, thirsting and near heaven; Nay were it wine, fill'd to the brim, Thou hadst look'd hard, but given, like him.

And art thou mingled then among Those famous sons of ancient song? And do they gather round, and praise Thy relish Of their nobler lays? Waxing in mirth to hear thee tell With what strange mortals thou didst dwell! At thy quaint sallies more delighted, Than any's long among them lighted!

'Tis done: and thou hast join'd a crew, To whom thy soul was justly due; And yet I think, where'er thou be, They'll scarcely love thee more than we.

This is the last letter of Charles Lamb, who tripped and fell in Church Street, Edmonton, on December 22, and died of erysipelas on December 27.

At the time of his death Lamb was very nearly sixty. His birthday was February 10.

Mary Lamb, with occasional lapses into sound health, survived him until May 20, 1847. At first she continued to live at Edmonton, but a few years later moved to the house of Mrs. Parsons, sister of her old nurse, Miss James, in St. John's Wood. I append three letters, two written and one inspired, by her, to Miss Jane Norris, one of the daughters of Randal Norris. Of the friends mentioned therein I might add that Edward Moxon lived until 1858; Mrs. Edward Moxon until 1891; James Kenney until 1849; Thomas Hood until 1845; and Barron Field until 1846.]



LETTER 615

MARY LAMB TO JANE NORRIS

[41 Alpha Road, Regent's Park]

Christmas Day [1841].

My dear Jane,—Many thanks for your kind presents—your Michalmas goose. I thought Mr. Moxon had written to thank you—the turkeys and nice apples came yesterday.

Give my love to your dear Mother. I was unhappy to find your note in the basket, for I am always thinking of you all, and wondering when I shall ever see any of you again. I long to shew you what a nice snug place I have got into—in the midst of a pleasant little garden. I have a room for myself and my old books on the ground floor, and a little bedroom up two pairs of stairs. When you come to town, if you have not time to go [to] the Moxons, an Omnibus from the Bell and Crown in Holborn would [bring] you to our door in [a] quarter of an hour. If your dear Mother does not venture so far, I will contrive to pop down to see [her]. Love and all seasonable wishes to your sister and Mary, &c. I am in the midst of many friends—Mr. & Mrs. Kenney, Mr. & Mrs. Hood, Bar[r]on Field & his brother Frank, & their wives &c., all within a short walk.

If the lodger is gone, I shall have a bedroom will hold two! Heaven bless & preserve you all in health and happiness many a long year.

Yours affectionately,

M.A. LAMB.



LETTER 616

MARY LAMB TO JANE NORRIS

Oct. 3, 1842.

My dear Jane Norris,—Thanks, many thanks, my dear friend, for your kind remembrances. What a nice Goose! That, and all its accompaniments in the basket, we all devoured; the two legs fell to my share!!!

Your chearful [letter,] my Jane, made me feel "almost as good as new."

Your Mother and I must meet again. Do not be surprized if I pop in again for a half-hour's call some fine frosty morning.

Thank you, dear Jane, for the happy tidings that my old friend Miss Bangham is alive, an[d] that Mary is still with you, unmarried. Heaven bless you all.

Love to Mother, Betsey, Mary, &c. How I do long to see you.

I am always your affecately grateful friend,

MARY ANN LAMB.



LAST LETTER

Miss JAMES TO JANE NORRIS

41 Alpha Road, Regent's Park,

London, July 25, 1843.

Madam,—Miss Lamb, having seen the Death of your dear Mother in the Times News Paper, is most anxious to hear from or to see one of you, as she wishes to know how you intend settling yourselves, and to have a full account of your dear Mother's last illness. She was much shocked on reading of her death, and appeared very vexed that she had not been to see her, [and] wanted very much to come down and see you both; but we were really afraid to let her take the journey. If either of you are coming up to town, she would be glad if you would call upon her, but should you not be likely to come soon, she would be very much pleased if one of you would have the goodness to write a few lines to her, as she is most anxious about you. She begs you to excuse her writing to you herself, as she don't feel equal to it; she asked me yesterday to write for her. I am happy to say she is at present pretty well, although your dear Mother's death appears to dwell much upon her mind. She desires her kindest love to you both, and hopes to hear from you very soon, if you are equal to writing. I sincerely hope you will oblige her, and am,

Madam,

Your obedient, &c.,

SARAH JAMES.

Pray don't invite her to come down to see you.



APPENDIX

CONSISTING OF THE LONGER PASSAGES FROM BOOKS REFERRED TO BY LAMB IN HIS LETTERS

BERNARD BARTON'S "THE SPIRITUAL LAW"

FROM DEVOTIONAL VERSES, 1826 (See Letter 388, page 746)

"But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that them mayest do it."—Deut. xxx. 14.

Say not The law divine Is hidden from thee, or far remov'd: That law within would shine, If there its glorious light were sought and lov'd.

Soar not on high, Nor ask who thence shall bring it down to earth; That vaulted sky Hath no such star, didst thou but know its worth.

Nor launch thy bark In search thereof upon a shoreless sea, Which has no ark, No dove to bring this olive-branch to thee.

Then do not roam In search of that which wandering cannot win; At home! At home! That word is plac'd, thy mouth, thy heart within.

Oh! seek it there, Turn to its teachings with devoted will; Watch unto prayer, And in the power of faith this law fulfil.

BARTON'S "THE TRANSLATION OF ENOCH"

FROM NEW YEAR'S EVE, 1828

(See Letter 467, page 841)

"And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him."

Genesis.

Through proudly through the vaulted sky Was borne Elisha's sire, And dazzling unto mortal eye His car and steeds of fire:

To me as glorious seems the change Accorded to thy worth; As instantaneous and as strange Thy exit from this earth.

Something which wakes a deeper thrill, These few brief words unfold, Than all description's proudest skill Could of that hour have told.

Fancy's keen eye may trace the course Elijah held on high: The car of flame, each fiery horse, Her visions may supply;—

But THY transition mocks each dream Framed by her wildest power, Nor can her mastery supreme Conceive thy parting hour.

Were angels, with expanded wings, As guides and guardians given? Or did sweet sounds from seraphs' strings Waft thee from earth to heaven?

'Twere vain to ask: we know but this— Thy path from grief and time Unto eternity and bliss, Mysterious and sublime!

With God thou walkedst: and wast not! And thought and fancy fail Further than this to paint thy lot, Or tell thy wondrous tale.

TALFOURD'S "VERSES IN MEMORY OF A CHILD NAMED AFTER CHARLES LAMB"

FROM THE FINAL MEMORIALS OF CHARLES LAMB

(See Letter 469, page 846)

Our gentle Charles has pass'd away From Earth's short bondage free, And left to us its leaden day And mist-enshrouded sea.

Here, by the restless ocean's side, Sweet hours of hope have flown, When first the triumph of its tide Seem'd omen of our own.

That eager joy the sea-breeze gave, When first it raised his hair, Sunk with each day's retiring wave, Beyond the reach of prayer.

The sun-blink that through drizzling mist, To flickering hope akin, Lone waves with feeble fondness kiss'd, No smile as faint can win;

Yet not in vain, with radiance weak, The heavenly stranger gleams— Not of the world it lights to speak, But that from whence it streams.

That world our patient sufferer sought, Serene with pitying eyes, As if his mounting Spirit caught The wisdom of the skies.

With boundless love it look'd abroad For one bright moment given; Shone with a loveliness that aw'd, And quiver'd into Heaven.

A year made slow by care and toil Has paced its weary round, Since Death enrich'd with kindred spoil The snow-clad, frost-ribb'd ground.

Then LAMB, with whose endearing name Our boy we proudly graced, Shrank from the warmth of sweeter fame Than mightier Bards embraced.

Still 'twas a mournful joy to think Our darling might supply For years to us, a living link, To name that cannot die.

And though such fancy gleam no more On earthly sorrow's night, Truth's nobler torch unveils the shore Which lends to both its light.

The nurseling there that hand may take, None ever grasp'd in vain, And smiles of well-known sweetness wake, Without their tinge of pain.

Though,'twixt the Child and child-like Bard, Late seemed distinction wide. They now may trace in Heaven's regard, How near they were allied.

Within the infant's ample brow Blythe fancies lay unfurl'd, Which, all uncrush'd, may open now, To charm a sinless world.

Though the soft spirit of those eyes Might ne'er with LAMB'S compete— Ne'er sparkle with a wit as wise, Or melt in tears, as sweet;

That calm and unforgotten look A kindred love reveals, With his who never friend forsook, Or hurt a thing that feels.

In thought profound, in wildest glee, In sorrows dark and strange, The soul of Lamb's bright infancy Endured no spot or change.

From traits of each our love receives For comfort, nobler scope; While light, which child-like genius leaves. Confirms the infant's hope;

And in that hope with sweetness fraught Be aching hearts beguiled, To blend in one delightful thought The POET and the CHILD!

EDWARD FITZGERALD'S "THE MEADOWS IN SPRING"

FROM HONE'S YEAR BOOK

(See Letter 535, page 938)

'Tis a sad sight To see the year dying; When autumn's last wind Sets the yellow wood sighing; Sighing, oh sighing!

When such a time cometh, I do retire Into an old room, Beside a bright fire; Oh! pile a bright fire!

And there I sit Reading old things Of knights and ladies, While the wind sings: Oh! drearily sings!

I never look out, Nor attend to the blast; For, all to be seen, Is the leaves falling fast: Falling, falling!

But, close at the hearth, Like a cricket, sit I; Reading of summer And chivalry: Gallant chivalry!

Then, with an old friend, I talk of our youth; How 'twas gladsome, but often Foolish, forsooth, But gladsome, gladsome.

Or, to get merry, We sing an old rhyme That made the wood ring again In summer time: Sweet summer time!

Then take we to smoking, Silent and snug: Naught passes between us, Save a brown jug; Sometimes! sometimes!

And sometimes a tear Will rise in each eye, Seeing the two old friends, So merrily; So merrily!

And ere to bed Go we, go we, Down by the ashes We kneel on the knee; Praying, praying!

Thus then live I, Till, breaking the gloom Of winter, the bold sun Is with me in the room! Shining, shining!

Then the clouds part, Swallows soaring between: The spring is awake, And the meadows are green,—

I jump up like mad; Break the old pipe in twain; And away to the meadows, The meadows again!

EPSILON.

JAMES MONTGOMERY'S "THE COMMON LOT"

(See Letter 535, page 938)

A Birth-day Meditation, during a solitary winter walk of seven miles, between a village in Derbyshire and Sheffield, when the ground was covered with snow, the sky serene, and the morning air intensely pure.

Once in the flight of ages past, There lived a man:—and WHO was HE? —Mortal! howe'er thy lot be cast, That man resembled Thee.

Unknown the region of his birth, The land in which he died unknown: His name has perish'd from the earth; This truth survives alone:—

That joy and grief, and hope and fear, Alternate triumph'd in his breast; His bliss and woe,—a smile, a tear!— Oblivion hides the rest.

The bounding pulse, the languid limb, The changing spirits' rise and fall; We know that these were felt by him, For these are felt by all.

He suffer'd,—but his pangs are o'er; Enjoy'd,—but his delights are fled; Had friends,—his friends are now no more; And foes,—his foes are dead.

He loved,—but whom he loved, the grave Hath lost in its unconscious womb: O. she was fair!—but nought could save Her beauty from the tomb.

He saw whatever thou hast seen; Encounter'd all that troubles thee: He was—whatever thou hast been; He is—what thou shalt be.

The rolling seasons, day and night, Sun, moon, and stars, the earth and main, Erewhile his portion, life and light, To him exist in vain.

The clouds and sunbeams, o'er his eye That once their shades and glory threw, Have left in yonder silent sky No vestige where they flew.

The annals of the human race, Their ruins, since the world began, Of HIM afford no other trace Than this,—THERE LIVED A MAN!

November 4, 1805. BARRY CORNWALL'S "EPISTLE TO CHARLES LAMB;

ON HIS EMANCIPATION FROM CLERKSHIP"

(WRITTEN OVER A FLASK OF SHERRIS)

FROM ENGLISH SONGS

(See Letter 551, page 952)

Dear Lamb! I drink to thee,—to thee Married to sweet Liberty!

What, old friend, and art thou freed From the bondage of the pen? Free from care and toil indeed? Free to wander amongst men When and howsoe'er thou wilt? All thy drops of labour spilt, On those huge and figured pages, Which will sleep unclasp'd for ages, Little knowing who did wield The quill that traversed their white field?

Come,—another mighty health! Thou hast earn'd thy sum of wealth,— Countless ease,—immortal leisure,— Days and nights of boundless pleasure, Checquer'd by no dreams of pain, Such as hangs on clerk-like brain Like a night-mare, and doth press The happy soul from happiness.

Oh! happy thou,—whose all of time (Day and eve, and morning prime) Is fill'd with talk on pleasant themes,— Or visions quaint, which come in dreams Such as panther'd Bacchus rules, When his rod is on "the schools," Mixing wisdom with their wine;— Or, perhaps, thy wit so fine Strayeth in some elder book, Whereon our modern Solons look With severe ungifted eyes, Wondering what thou seest to prize. Happy thou, whose skill can take Pleasure at each turn, and slake Thy thirst by every fountain's brink, Where less wise men would pause to shrink: Sometimes, 'mid stately avenues With Cowley thou, or Marvel's muse, Dost walk; or Gray, by Eton's towers; Or Pope, in Hampton's chesnut bowers; Or Walton, by his loved Lea stream: Or dost thou with our Milton dream, Of Eden and the Apocalypse, And hear the words from his great lips?

Speak,—in what grove or hazel shade, For "musing meditation made," Dost wander?—or on Penshurst Lawn, Where Sidney's fame had time to dawn And die, ere yet the hate of Men Could envy at his perfect pen? Or, dost thou, in some London street, (With voices fill'd and thronging feet,) Loiter, with mien 'twixt grave and gay?— Or take along some pathway sweet, Thy calm suburban way?

Happy beyond that man of Ross, Whom mere content could ne'er engross, Art thou,—with hope, health, "learned leisure;" Friends, books, thy thoughts, an endless pleasure! —Yet—yet,—(for when was pleasure made Sunshine all without a shade?) Thou, perhaps, as now thou rovest Through the busy scenes thou lovest, With an Idler's careless look, Turning some moth-pierced book, Feel'st a sharp and sudden woe For visions vanished long ago! And then thou think'st how time has fled Over thy unsilvered head, Snatching many a fellow mind Away, and leaving—what?—behind! Nought, alas! save joy and pain Mingled ever, like a strain Of music where the discords vie With the truer harmony. So, perhaps, with thee the vein Is sullied ever,—so the chain Of habits and affections old, Like a weight of solid gold, Presseth on thy gentle breast, Till sorrow rob thee of thy rest.

Ay: so't must be!—Ev'n I, (whose lot The fairy Love so long forgot,) Seated beside this Sherris wine, And near to books and shapes divine, Which poets, and the painters past Have wrought in lines that aye shall last,— Ev'n I, with Shakspeare's self beside me, And one whose tender talk can guide me Through fears, and pains, and troublous themes, Whose smile doth fall upon my dreams Like sunshine on a stormy sea,— Want something—when I think of thee!



LIST OF LETTERS

ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED

Aders, Charles, to Jan. 8, 1823 Ainsworth, W. Harrison, to May 7, 1822 Dec. 9, 1823 Dec. 29, — Aitken, J., to July 5, 1825 Allsop, Thomas, to July 13, 1820 ? 1821 ? — March 30, — Oct. 21, — July, 1823 Sept. 6, — Sept. 9, — Sept. 10, — Sept. — ? Oct. — Jan. 17, 1825 Sept. 9, — Sept. 24, — Dec. 5, — ? Middle Dec., 1827 Dec. 20, — Jan. 9, 1828 May 1, — Jan. 28, 1829 Late July, — July 2, 1832 Mrs. Thomas, to April 13, 1824 Arnold, S.J., to (from Charles and Mary Lamb) No date. Asbury, Jacob Vale, to ? April, 1830 No date. Athenaeum, printer of, to No date. 1834

Ayrton, William, to May 12, 1817 Oct. 27, 1821 March 14, 1830 Mrs. William, to Jan. 23, 1821 March 15, — (from Mary Lamb) No date. April 16, 1833

Barton, Bernard, to Sept. 11, 1822 Oct. 9, — Dec. 23, — Jan. 9, 1823 Feb. 17, — March 11, — April 5, — May 3, — July 10, — Sept. 2, — Sept. 17, — Nov. 22, — Jan. 9, 1824 Jan. 23, — Feb. 25, — March 24, — Early Spring, — May 15, — July 7, — Aug. 17, — Sept. 30, — Dec. 1, — Feb. 10, 1825 March 23, — April 6, — July 2, — Aug. 10, — Feb. 7, 1826 March 20, — May 16, — Sept. 26, — No date. — No date. 1827 June 11, — Aug. 10, — Aug. 28, — Late — Dec. 4, — End of — April 21, 1828 Oct. 11, — Dec. 5, — March 25, 1829 June 3, — July 25, — Dec. 8, — Feb. 25, 1830 June 28, — Aug. 30, — April 30, 1831 Lucy, to (P.S. to letter to B.B.) Dec. 1, 1824 Betham, Barbara, to (from Mary Lamb) Nov. 2, 1814 Mary, to June 5, 1833 June 5, — Jan. 24, 1834 Matilda, to No date. 1808 No date. — (from Mary Lamb) ? 1811 ? Late Summer, 1815 No date. — No date. — June 1, 1816 June, 1833

Cary, Rev. H.F., to Oct. 14, 1823 April 3, 1826 May 6, 1831 Sept. 9, 1833 (from Charles and Mary Lamb) Sept. 12, 1834 Oct. — Oct. 18, — Chambers, Charles, to ? May, 1825 Childs, Mr., to ? Dec., 1834 No date. — Clare, John, to Aug. 31, 1822 Clarke, Charles Cowden, to Summer, 1821 Feb. 25, 1828 Oct., — Dec., — Feb. 2, 1829 End of June, 1834 Clarkson, Thomas and Catherine, to June, 1807 Clarkson, Mrs. Thomas, to (from Mary Lamb) Dec. 10, 1808 Dec. 10, — Colburn (?), Henry, to June 14, (?1825) Sept. 25, 1837 Coleridge, S.T., to May 27, 1796 End of May — June 10, — June 13, — July 1, — July 5, — July 6, — Sept. 27, — Oct. 3, — Oct. 17, — Oct. 24, — Oct. 28, — Nov. 8, — Nov. 14, — Dec. 2, — Dec. 5, — Dec. 9, — Dec. 10, — Jan. 2, 1797 Jan. 10, — Jan. 18, — Feb. 5, — Feb. 13, — April 7, — April 15, — June 13, — June 24, — ? June 29, — Late July — Aug. 24, — About Sept. 20, — Jan. 28, 1798 Early Summer, — ? Jan. 23, 1800 ? April 16 or 17, — ? Spring, — May 12, — Coleridge, S.T., to ? Late July, — Aug. 6, — Aug. 14, — Aug. 26, — Sept. 8, 1802 Oct. 9, — Oct. 11, — Oct. 23, — Nov. 4, — April 13, 1803 May 27, — March 10, 1804 April 5, — (from Mary Lamb) No date. June 7, 1809 Oct. 30, — Aug. 13, 1814 Aug. 26, — Dec. 24, 1818 ? Summer, 1819 Jan 10, 1820 ? Autumn, — May 1, 1821 March 9, 1822 ? June, 1825 July 2, — March 22, 1826 June 1, — April 14, 1832 Mrs. S.T., to (from Mary Lamb) Oct. 13, 1804 Collier, John Dyer, to No date. 1812 Mr. and Mrs. J.D., to Jan. 6, 1823 Mrs. J.D., to (from Mary Lamb) No date. Nov. 2, 1824 John Payne, to Dec 10, 1817 May 16, 1821 Cottle, Joseph, to Nov. 5, 1819 ? Late — ? May 26, 1820 Dibdin, John Bates, to ? 1823 May 6, — Oct 28, — July 28, 1824 Jan. 11, 1825 June 30, 1826 July 14, — Sept. 9, — Sept. 5, 1827 Sept. 13, — Sept. 18 — Oct. 2, — Dilke, Charles Wentworth, to March 5, 1832 Feb., 1833 April, — Middle Dec — No date. ? 1834 No date. — End of July — Dyer, George, to Dec. 5, 1808 ? Jan., 1829 April 29, — Dec. 20, 1830 Feb. 22, 1831 Mrs. George, to Dec. 22, 1834

Elton, C.A., to Aug. 17, 1821

Field, Barren, to Aug. 31, 1817 Aug. 16, 1820 Sept. 22, 1822 Oct. 4, 1827 Forster, John, to ? Late April, 1832 Dec. 23, — No date. No date. No date. ? March, 1833 May, — May 12, — June 25, 1834 Fryer, Miss, to Feb. 14, — No date.

Gillman, James, to May 2, 1821 Oct. 26, 1829 ? Nov. 29, — Nov. 30 — March 8, 1830 ? Early Spring, — Gillman, Rev. James, to May 7, 1833 Aug. 5, 1834 Godwin, William, to Dec. 4, 1800 No date. Autumn, — Dec. 10, — Dec. 14, — June 29, 1801 Sept. 9, — Sept. 17, — Nov. 8, 1803 Nov. 10, — ? 1806 March 11, 1808 ? 1810 May 16, 1822 Mrs., to No date. Gutch, John Mathew, to No date. 1800 April 9, 1810

Haydon, Benjamin Robert, to Dec. 26, 1817 Oct. 9, 1822 Oct. 29, — March, 1827 Aug., 1828 Hazlitt, William, to Nov. 10, 1805 Jan. 15, 1806 Feb. 19, — March 15, — Aug. 9, 1810 Nov. 28, — Oct. 2, 1811 Mrs. W. See Stoddart, Sarah jr., William, to Sept. 13, 1831 Rev. W., to Feb. 18, 1808 Hill, Thomas, to No date. Holcroft, jr., Thomas, to Autumn, 1819 Hone, William, to April, 1824 May 2, 1825 Oct. 24, — April, 1827 End of May, — June, — Early July, — Oct., — Dec. 15, — May 21, 1830 March 6, 1833 Hood, Thomas, to Aug. 10, 1824 May, 1827 Sept. 18, — No date. ?— Late Autumn, 1828? ? May, 1829? Hoods, the Thomas, to (from Mary Lamb) ? Summer, 1828 Hume, Joseph, to No date. his daughters, to No date. 1832 Mrs., to No date. Humphreys, Miss, to Jan. 27 1821 Hunt, Leigh, to April 18, — ? Nov., 1824 Dec., 1827 Hutchinson, Sarah, to (from Mary Lamb) Aug. 29 1815 Aug. 20, — Oct. 19, — (from Mary Lamb) Middle of Nov., 1816 ? Late — April 25, 1823 (?) No date. Nov. 25, 1824 Jan. 20, 1825 March 1, — April 18, —

James, Miss Sarah, to ? April, 1829 Kelly, Fanny, to July 20, 1819 July 20, — Kenny, James and Louisa, to Oct., 1817 Mrs. James, to (from Mary Lamb) ? Early Dec., 1822 Knowles, James Sheridan, to ? April, 1832 Lamb, Mrs. John, to May 22, 1822 Mary, to August, — Landor, Walter Savage, to Oct., 1832 Lloyd, Charles, to Autumn, 1823 Manning, Thomas, to Dec., 1799 Dec. 28, — Feb. 13, 1800 March 1, — March 17, — April 5, — May 20, — ? May 25, — Aug. 9, — Aug. 11, — Aug. 24, — Aug. 28, — Sept. 22, — Oct. 16, — Nov. 3, — Nov. 28, — Dec. 13, — Dec. 16, — End of Dec.,— Dec. 27, — Feb. 15, 1801 Late Feb., — April, — ? April, — Aug., — Aug. 31, — ? Feb. 15, 1802 ? April, — Sept. 24, — Nov., — Feb. 19, 1803 March, — Feb. 23, 1805 July 27, — Nov. 15, — May 10, 1806 Dec. 5, — Feb. 26, 1808 March 28, 1809 Jan. 2, 1810 Dec. 25, 1815 Dec. 26, — May 28, 1819 ? Feb 1825 Marter, W., to July 19, 1824 Montagu, Basil, to July 12, 1810 Mrs. Basil, to Summer, 1827 Morgan, John, to March 8, 1811 Mrs., to June 17, 1828 Moxon, Edward, to No date. 1826 ? Sept., — July 17, 1827 ? Sept. 26, — Dec. 22, — ? Jan., 1828 Feb. 18, — March 19, — May 3, — Dec., — No date. 1829 Sept. 22, — May 12, 1830 Nov. 12, — ? Dec., — ? Dec. 25, — Feb. 3, 1831 July 14, — Early August, — Aug. 5, — Sept. 5, — Oct. 24, — Dec. 15, — June 1, 1832 Late — Winter, — Dec., — Jan., 1833 Jan. 3, — Jan. 24, — Feb. 11, — Feb., — No date. — Early — March 19, — ? Spring, — March 30, — Spring, — ? April 10, — April 25, — April 27, — July 14, — July 24, — and Emma (from Mary and Charles Lamb) ? July 31, — (from Mary and Charles Lamb) Sept. 26, — Oct. 17, — Nov. 29, — Jan. 28, 1834 Norris, Jane, to (from Mary Lamb) Dec. 25, 1841 Oct. 3, 1842 (from Miss James) July 25, 1843 Mrs. Randal, to (from Mary Lamb) June 18, 1823 Novello, Vincent, to Jan. 25, 1825 May 9, 1826 Nov. 6, 1828 ? Nov. 10, 1829 May 14, 1830 Nov. 8, — Mrs. Vincent, to (from Mary Lamb) Spring, 1820

Ollier, Charles, to ? Dec., 1825 Early 1826 March 16, — Charles and James, to June 18, 1818

Patmore, P.G., to July 19, 1827 Sept., — Payne, J.H., to Autumn, 1822 Oct. 22, — Nov. 13, — Jan., 1823 Jan. 23, — Feb. [9], — Poole, Thomas, to Feb. 14, 1804 May 4, — May 5, — Proctor, B.W., to ? Summer, 1821 April 13, 1823 Nov. 11, 1824 Jan. 19, 1829 Jan. 22, — ? Jan 29, — No date. — Feb. 2, — No date. 1833

Rickman, John, to ? Nov., 1801 April 10, 1802 July 16, 1803 Jan. 25, 1806 March, — Oct. 3, 1828 Robinson, H.C., to March 12, 1808 May, 1809 Feb. 7, 1810 Nov. 20, 1824 March 29, 1825 Jan. 20, 1827 Jan. 20, — Jan. 29, — Jan., — June 26, — Oct. 1, — Feb. 26, 1828 Feb. 27, 1829 ? April, — April 17, — ? Early Oct., 1832 Thomas, to Nov. 11, 1822 Rogers, Samuel, to March 22, 1829 Oct. 5, 1830 ? Dec. 21, 1833 Russell, J. Fuller, to Summer, 1834

Sargus, Mr., to Feb. 23, 1815 Scott, John, to ? Feb., 1814 Dec. 12, — Sir Walter, to Oct. 29, 1822 Shelley, Mrs. Percy Bysshe, to July 26, 1827 Southey, Robert, to July 28, 1798 Oct. 18, — Oct. 29, — Nov. 3, — Nov. 8, — ? Nov., — Nov. 28, — Dec. 27, — Jan. 21, 1799 Late Jan. or early Feb., — March 15, — March 20, — Oct. 31, — Nov. 7, 1804 May 6, 1815 Aug. 9, — Oct. 26, 1818 Nov. 21, 1823 Aug. 10, 1825 May 10, 1830 Stoddart, Sir John, to Aug. 9, — Lady, to (from Mary Lamb) Aug. 9, 1827 Sarah (later Mrs. Hazlitt), to (from Mary Lamb) Sept. 21, 1803 (from Mary Lamb) ? March, 1804 Late July, — Late July, — (from Mary Lamb) ? Sept.18, 1805 Early Nov., — Nov. 9 and 14, — ? Feb. 20, 21 and 22, 1806 March, — June 2, — ? July 4, — Oct 23, — Dec. 11, — (from Mary Lamb) Oct., 1807 Dec. 21, — Feb. 12, 1808 March 16, — Dec. 10, — Dec. 10, — (from Mary Lamb) June 2, 1809 Nov. 7, — ? End of 1810 Oct. 2, 1811 Early Nov., 1823 March 4, 1830 May 24, — June 3, — May 31, 1833

Talfourd, T.N., to Aug., 1819 May 20, 1828 End of — Feb., 1833 No date. 1834 Taylor, John, to June 8, 1821 July 21, — Dec. 7, 1822

Williams, Mrs., to Feb. 26, 1830 March 1, — March 5, — March 22, — April 2, — April 9, — April 21, — Wilson, Walter, to Aug. 14, 1801 Dec. 16, 1822 Feb. 24, 1823 May 17, 1828 May 28, 1829 Nov. 15, — Aug., 1832 Wordsworth, Dorothy, to (from Mary Lamb) July 9, 1803 June 2, 1804 (from Mary Lamb) Oct. 13, — May 7, 1805 June 14, — (from Mary Lamb) Aug. 29, 1806 Nov. 13, 1810 Nov. 13, — (from Mary Lamb) Nov. 23, — Nov. 23, — (from Mary Lamb) Nov. 21, 1817 Nov. 21, — Nov. 25, 1819 May 25, 1820 Jan. 8, 1821 (from Mary Lamb) Jan. 22, 1830 Mrs., to Feb. 18, 1818 William, to Jan. 30, 1801 March 5, 1803 Oct. 13, 1804 Feb. 18, 1805 Feb. 19, — March 5, — March 21, — April 5, — (and Dorothy) Sept. 28, — Feb. 1, 1806 June 26, — Dec. 11, — Wordsworth, William, to Jan. 29, 1807 Oct. 19, 1810 Aug. 9, 1814 Sept. 19, — Dec. 28, — ? Early Jan., 1815 April 7, — April 28, — Aug. 9, — April 9, 1816 April 26, — Sept. 23, — April 26, 1819 June 7, — March 20, 1822 Jan., 1823 April 6, 1825 May, — Sept. 6, 1826 May, 1828 Jan. 22, 1830 End of May, 1833 Feb. 27, 1834



INDEX

A

Acrostics

Aders, Charles his pictures, Lamb's poem to

Adventures of Ulysses

"After Blenheim," by Southey

Agricultural Depression, Lamb on

Ainsworth, W.H. See Letters. his dedication to Lamb his gift of Syrinx and "Faust"

Aitken, John. See Letters. his Cabinet

Albion, Lamb and the

Albums, Lamb on

Album Verses

"Ali Pacha," by Howard Payne

Allen, Robert

Allsop, Thomas. See Letters.

Alsager, T.M.

"Amicus Redivivus"

"Ancient Mariner, The"

Anderson, Dr.

"Angel Help"

Angerstein, John Julius

Angling, Lamb and

Animal poetry

"Anna." See Simmons.

Annual Anthology, The

Anti-Jacobin, The

"Antonio," by Godwin

Appendix: Passages from Books referred to by Lamb

Aquinas, Thomas

"Ariadne," by Titian

Ariel, Lamb as

Arnold, Samuel James. See Letters.

"Arthur's Bower"

Asbury, J.V. See Letters. and Emma Isola and Lamb as Ariel

Asses, old poem on

Astrea

Australia, Lamb on

Authors and Publishers, Lamb on

Ayrton, William. See Letters.

Mrs. See Letters.

B

Badams, Carlyle's friend

Mrs., nee Louisa Holcroft. See Letters.

Baldwin the publisher

Ball, Sir Alexander

"Ballad," by Lamb

Bankrupts, Lamb on

"Barbara S."

Barbauld, Mrs.

Barker, Lieut. John

Barnes, Thomas

Bartholomew Fair

Barton, Bernard. See Letters. first mention his suggested retirement from the bank his testimonial Lamb on his poems Poetic Vigils "Sonnet to Elia" Poems, 4th edition his Devotional Verses his Widow's Tale extracts from his poems Lamb sends him a picture his step-grandfather his New Year's Eve sonnet to Lamb his "Spiritual Law" his "Translation of Enoch" Lucy, verses to note to at Islington

Baskerville, John

Battle, Mrs.

Beaumont and Fletcher

Beaumont, Sir George

Bellows Shakespeare

"Belshazzar's Feast"

Benger, Miss

Berkleyans

Betham, Anne, her legacy

Barbara. See Letters.

Mary Matilda. See Letters.

Bethams, the, their tallness

Betty, Master

Bijou, The

Binding, the perfect

"Bites," Lamb's

Blake, William

Blakesware

Blanchard, Laman

Bland, Mrs.

Blank Verse, by Lamb and Lloyd

Blenheim, its pictures

Bloomfield, his Farmer's Boy

Bloxam, Samuel

Blue-stockings, Lamb among

Bodleian Library

Book-binder, Lamb's poor relation

Book-borrowing, Lamb on

"Borderers, The," by Wordsworth

Bourne, Vincent

Bowles, William Lisle his allegory, "Hope" his "Elegiac Stanzas"

Boyer, James

Braham, John

Brawn, Lamb on

Brighton, the Lambs at

British Museum, Lamb at

Brown, Miss, her album verses

Brutons, the Lambs' cousins

Buchan, the Earl of

Buncle, John

Bungay, Lamb on

Bunyan

Burke and Hare

Burke, Edmund

Burnet, Bishop, his Own Times

Burnett, George and Dyer

Burney, Captain

Martin

Sarah

Burns, Robert

Burrell, Miss

Burton, Lamb's imitations of

Butterworth, Major

Button, Emma, Lamb's acrostic

Button Snap, Lamb's cottage

Bye, Thomas

Byron, Lord

C

Cabinet, The

Callers, Lamb on

Calne, the Lambs at

Cambridge, the Lambs' visit in Lamb at

"Cambridge Brawn"

Campbell, J. Dykes on Coleridge in 1806 on Coleridge's pension

Capital Punishment, Lamb on

Carlisle, Sir Antony

Caroline of Brunswick

Cary, H.F. See Letters. a model parson his career at the Museum and Miss Isola's Latin and Moxon his Euripides his translation of Dante at the Museum his verses on Lamb

Catalani and Coleridge

Cellini, his autobiography

Chambers, Charles. See Letters. and Lamb's praise of fish his family

John. See Letters.

Champion, The

"Chapel Bell, The," by Southey

Chapman's Homer

Chatsworth, by Patmore

Chaucer, Godwin's Life

Cheshire cats

Chessiad, The

Children's books, Lamb on

Childs, Mr. See Letters.

Chimney-sweepers

China, Manning's intentions Lamb on

Christabel

"Christian Names of Women"

Christ's Hospital

Christy, Dr.

Clare, John. See Letters.

Clarke, Charles Cowden. See Letters. his career and Novello his marriage his tuft

Mary Anne

Mary Victoria (nee Novello)

Clarkson, Thomas and Catherine. See Letters.

Coe, Mrs. Elizabeth

Caelebs in Search of a Wife

Colburn, Henry. See Letters. Lamb on

Zerah

Cold in the head, Lamb on

Colebrooke Cottage

Coleridge, Derwent

Rev. Edward. See Letters.

Hartley

Henry Nelson, his Six Months in the West Indies

Samuel Taylor. See Letters. and religion, I in 1796 and Southey his Poems his share of Joan of Arc alters Lamb's sonnets his letter of consolation and opium and the 1797 volume and John Lamb, jr. his baby song his Ode on the Departing Year as a husbandman his Joan of Arc verses and Rogers on Lamb his refusal to write his "Osorio" and the Stowey visit his "Lime-tree Bower" and Lamb's greatcoat and C. Lloyd the Wedgwood annuity and Lamb's "Theses Qusaedam Theologicae" the quarrel with Lamb and Lloyd his letter of remonstrance to Lamb with Wordsworth in Germany in Buckingham Street his articles in the Morning Post with Lamb in 1800 his translation of Schiller his books his affection for the Lambs his Anthology poems on Wordsworth at Keswick his Chamounix Hymn suggests collaboration with Lamb on Mary Lamb's illness his Poems, 3rd edition his Malta plans at Malta, and the Wordsworths in Italy returns home and his wife, The Friend neglects the Lambs his potations his difference with Wordsworth and Catalani in 1814 his "Remorse" and the translation of "Faust" his Biographia Literaria his Sibylline Leaves a characteristic end his "Zapolya" at a chemist's recites "Kubla Khan" puts himself under Gillman attacked by Hazlitt at Highgate his Statesman's Manual his lectures at Gillman's on Peter Bell the Third his "Fancy in Nubibus" in Lloyd's poem his book-borrowing and Allsop his dying message in 1807 at Monkhouse's dinner and Mrs. Gillman and Irving and the Prize Essay and Hood's Odes his Aids to Reflection on Lamb and Herbert his joke on summer and the Albums for St. Luke's on William IV. and the pension imagines an affront his death

Sara the younger

Collier, John Dyer. See Letters.

Mrs. John Dyer. See Letters.

John Payne. See Letters.

Colonel Jack

"Common Lot, The," by Montgomery

Companion, The

Conciones ad Populum

"Confessions of a Drunkard"

Congreve and Voltaire

Cooke, G.F.

Cooper, Samuel

Cornwall, Barry. See also B.W. Procter. his English Songs his "King Death," his "Epistle to Charles Lamb"

Cottle, Joseph. See Letters. his "Monody on Henderson," his epic his brother's death his Malvern Hills his Alfred his portrait his Messiah his Fall of Cambria

Cotton on "Winter" on "Old Age"

Coulson, Walter

Country, Lamb on the

Coutts, Mrs.

Covent Garden, Lamb's love for

Cowes, the Lambs and Burneys there

Cowper, William and Milton The Royal George

Cresswell, Dr., vicar of Edmonton

Croly, Rev. George

Cromwell and Napoleon

Cromwell, Cooper's portrait of

Cruelty to animals, John Lamb's pamphlet

Cunningham, Allan

Curse of Kehama

Curtis, Alderman

D

Dalston, the Lambs at

Danby, the murder of

Daniel, George

Samuel

Darley, George

Dash, Lamb's dog

Dawe, George

"Deathbed, A"

"Decay of Imagination," Lamb's essay on

Dedications to Lamb

Defoe, Daniel

De Quincey, Thomas

Dermody, Thomas

Despard, Colonel

De Stael, Madame, on Germany

Desultory Thoughts in London

"Dialogue between a Mother and Child"

Dibdin, Charles

John Bates. See Letters. his meeting with Lamb his death

"Dick Strype"

Dilke, Charles Wentworth. See Letters

"Dissertation on Roast Pig"

Dobell, Mr. Bertram

Dodd, Dr.

Dodwell, H., Lamb's letters to

"Don Giovanni"

"Douglas," by Home

Dowden, Mrs. See Mrs. John Lamb.

Dramatic Specimens

Drink, Lamb on

Druitt, Mary

Duddon Sonnets

Duncan, Miss

Dupuy, P.S., his translation

Dyer, George. See Letters and Horne Tooke his poetry his twin volumes his many "veins" his critical preface and the epic on Shakespeare his phrenesis his fallacy his Poems and Burnett his hunger-madness as the hero of a novel and the Earl of Buchan his autobiography his annuity his disappearance and Earl Stanhope and Lord Stanhope on other people's poetry his "Poetic Sympathies" his immersion his novel way with dead books his marriage and Novello and Emma Isola's album and Rogers his Unitarian tract his blindness

Mrs. George. See Letters

"Dying Lover, The"

E

Earl of Abergavenny

East India House

Edinburgh Review and Wordsworth

Edmonton, the Lambs' home there

Edmund Oliver

"Edward, Edward"

Elia, F. Augustus death of the original

"Elia, Sonnet to"

Elia, dedication of the American second series Last Essays of

Elton, Sir C.A.

Enfield, Lamb at Lamb settles there Lamb's house there and neighbourhood

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

English Songs, by Procter

Englishman's Magazine

"Enviable," Lamb on

Epic poetry and George Dyer

"Epitaph on Ensign Peacock"

"—on Mary Druitt"

"—on the Rigg Children"

Epitaphs, Lamb on Wordsworth on

Evans, William

Examiner, The, references to Miss Kelly and Lamb's Album Verses

Excursion, the

Exeter Change

F

Fairfax's Tasso

Falstaffs Letters

"Fancy in Nubibus"

"Farewell to Tobacco"

Farmer, Priscilla, Lloyd's grandmother

"Faulkener," Godwin's play

Fauntleroy, the forger

"Faust," by Goethe

Fawcetts, the two

Fell, Lamb's friend

Fenelon

Fenwick, John

Field, Barron. See Letters.

Mary, Lamb's grandmother

Fireworks, Lamb on

First-fruits of Australian Poetry

FitzGerald, Edward, his "Meadows in Spring" his memoir of Barton

FitzGerald, Mrs., at Islington

Fleet Prison

Fletcher, John, Lamb on

Ford, John

Fornham

Forster, John. See Letters.

Fox, George, his Journal

Franklin, Marmaduke

Fraser's Magazine

"Free Thoughts on Some Eminent Composers"

Frenchmen, Lamb on

Frend, William

Friend, The

Fryer, Miss. See Letters. Lamb's song for

Fuller, Thomas

G

Gardener, Lamb as a

Garrick Extracts

Gebir, by Landor

Gem, The

"Gentle Giantess, The"

"Gentle-hearted Charles"

George III.

Ghoul, the

Gilford, William

Gigliucci, Countess. See Novello, Clara.

Gillman, James. See Letters. and Coleridge

Rev. James. See Letters.

Gilray, his caricature of Coleridge and Co.

Goddard House School, Lamb at

Godiva, Lady, and John Martin

Godwin, William. See Letters. and Allen first meeting and Coleridge in Ireland and Mary Lamb's appetite his "Antonio" his pride his Persian play his courtship, Lamb on his "Faulkener" his dulness his Chaucer and Hazlitt Lamb's apology to and the Tales from Shakespear his shop and the Adventures of Ulysses his letter of criticism to Lamb on sepulchres and Mrs. Godwin his "tomb" his disrespect his difficulties

Mrs. See Letters.

Goethe, Lamb on

Gould, Mrs. See Miss Burrell.

"Grandame, The"

"Grandpapa," the, by J. Howard Payne

Great Russell Street, Lamb's home in

Grecians, Lamb on

Green, J.H.

Greg, Mr., Lamb's tenant

Gregory, Dr.

Grenville, Lord, and Coleridge

Gum-boil and Tooth-ache

Gutch, John Mathew

Gwynn, Mr. Stephen, his translations of Lamb's Latin letters

"Gypsy's Malison, The"

H

Hancock, his drawing of Lamb

Handwriting, Lamb on

Harley, J.P.

Harrow Church, Lamb in

Hastings, the Lambs at Hood at, Lamb on, Dibdin at

Haydon, B.R. See Letters. his career his party and Godwin's difficulties subjects for pictures his "Chairing the Member"

Hayes, Mary, and Charles Lloyd

Hayward, A., his Faust

Hazlitt, John

Mrs. John

Mary

Sarah. See Sarah Stoddart

Rev. W. See Letters.

William. See Letters. on Lamb his portrait of Lamb his first meeting with Lamb and Ned Search the misogynist and Lamb scolded woos Sarah Stoddart his love affair the joke of his death plans for his wedding his wedding missed in London his Grammar and the Political Register his son born his post on the Chronicle misunderstanding with Lamb his review of the Excursion his Lake Country "scapes" on Coleridge his conversation his borrowings from Lamb knocked down by John Lamb his lectures in 1818 his "Conversation of Authors" on Lamb's Letter to Southey on bodily pain on Shelley on Lamb his Spirit of the Age his second marriage in Paris his portrait of Lamb on Defoe and Lamb his losses his death jr. See Letters.

"Helen Repentant too Late"

Hell-fire Dick

Hemans, Mrs.

Henderson, Cottle's Monody on

Henshaw, William, Lamb's godfather

Herbert, George, Lamb on

Hesiod, Lamb on

"Hester"

Hetty, the Lambs' servant

Hicks' Hall

Higginbottom Sonnet

Hill, Thomas. See Letters.

Hissing, Lamb on

Holcroft, Fanny

Harwood

Louisa

Thomas

Mrs. Thomas. See Mrs. Kenney.

Tom. See Letter.

Hollingdon Rural Church

Hollingshead, Mr. John

Holmes, Edward

Homer, Lamb on

Hone, Alfred

Matilda

William. See Letters. first letter to Every-Day Book Lamb's lines to and the Garrick plays his Table Book stops and his difficulties and the Times

Hood, Thomas. See Letters. his Odes and Addresses Lamb on his "Very Deaf Indeed" his still-born child frames picture with Lamb his picture of Mary Lamb and Dash his Plea of the Midsummer Fairies his genius his parody of Lamb

Hoole, John

Hopkins, Dick, the swearing scullion

Howell, James, his Familiar Letters quoted

Mrs.

Hudibras quoted

Hudson, Mr.

Hugo, Victor, and Lamb

Hume, Joseph, M.P. See Letters.

Mrs.

the Misses

Humphreys, Miss. See Letters.

Hunt, John

Hunt, Leigh. See Letters. on Lamb's books and the Lambs a lost letter to his need of friends in Italy and freethinking his handwriting his Lord Byron his Companion and Lamb's Album Verses and Lamb's Satan

Hunt, Thornton

Hurst and Robinson's failure

Hyde Park, the jubilation in 1814

I

Imagination, Lamb on

Imlay, Fanny

Incendiarism at Enfield

India, Lamb on

Inner Temple Lane

"Innocence," Lamb's sonnet

Irving, Edward, and Coleridge his watch chain with Coleridge at St. Luke's his squint

Isle of Wight, the Lambs in

Isola, Emma her Latin to become a governess her reading of Milton her album her engagement at Pornham her illness and her physic and her watch her marriage a sonnet to her appearance

Harriet

Italian, the Lambs read

J

James, Sarah, See Letters.

Jameson, R.S., Hartley Coleridge's sonnets

Jameson, R.S., and Miss Isola

"Janus Weathercock," See also Wainewright, T.G.

Jekyll, Joseph

Jerdan, William, and Lamb

Joan of Arc, and Coleridge

John Bull and Rogers

John Buncle

John-Dory, Lamb on

John Woodvil

Johnson, Dr.

Joshua, Martin's picture

K

"Kais," the opera

Keats, John, at Haydon's

Kelly, Fanny H.

Maria. See Letters. her divine plain face Lamb's proposal to her Lamb's sonnet to her letter to Lamb learns Latin from Mary Lamb and "Barbara S." at the Strand Theatre

Kenney family

Mrs. James. See Letters.

Mrs. Louisa (afterwards Mrs. Badams). See Letters.

Sophy, Lamb's wife

Keymer, Mr., his album

Kew Palace, the Lambs at

"King Death," by Barry Cornwall

King and Queen of Hearts, The

"Kirkstone Pass"

Kitchener, Doctor

Knight, Anne

Knowles, J.S.

Kosciusko, Thaddeus

"Kubla Khan"

L

"Lady Blanche," verses by Mary Lamb

Lakes, the Lambs among the

Lamb family in

Charles, his temporary madness his love sonnets on Priestley and Coleridge in on his sonnets on old plays on Hope and Fear and the Bristol holiday on the tragedy of Sept. 22 on his sister's virtues his salary on his love his share of Coleridge's Poems, 1797 on simplicity on Bowles and his mother on Coleridge's 2nd edition his "Tomb of Douglas" on Cowper and Milton on Burns his second sonnet to his sister on his share of the 1797 Poems he exhorts Coleridge to attempt an epic on friendship his first poem to Lloyd on a subject for Coleridge on Cowper on Quakerism his "Vision of Repentance" on the 1797 Poems at Stowey leaves Little Queen Street at Southey's his lines on his mother's death his second poem to C. Lloyd and Lloyd and White his sarcastic propositions for Coleridge the quarrel with Coleridge on Wither and Quarles on Rosamund Gray on Southey's "Eclogues" on Marlowe on the "Ancient Mariner" and his tailor his appeal for a poor friend on his mind on poems on dumb creatures his epitaph on Ensign Peacock on Blakesware on alcoholic beverages and mathematics on Lloyd and Mary Hayes on Bishop Burnet on Falstaff's Letters among the Blue-stockings as a linguist on Hetty's death on Lake society on narrow means on Oxford his joke against Gutch on the "Gentle Charles" the use of the final "e" by punch-light as a consoler and the snakes his praise of London he takes in Manning and Godwin's supper his Epilogue for "Antonio" on the failure of "Antonio" on his Cambridge plans on the Lyrical Ballads his move to Mitre Court Buildings his namesake on his religious state in 1801 at Margate on Godwin's courtship his dramatic suggestions on Napoleon his spare figure at the Lakes his project for collaborating with Coleridge on children's books on Napoleon and Cromwell on Chapman's Homer on Milton's prose on Cellini on Independent Tartary on Coleridge's Poems, 3rd edition his 1803 holiday his adventure at sea his difficulties as a reviewer ceases to be a journalist his miserliness on old books his motto his portrait by Hazlitt on John Wordsworth's death on brawn on his sister his portrait by Hancock on pictures on Nelson in unsettled state on Manning's departure for China on "Mr. H." and Hazlitt scolded reconciled to Godwin and Hazlitt's "death" his difference with Godwin at Hazlitt's wedding on painter-authors and the Sheridans on moving on critics on the choice of a wife criticises Mr. Lloyd's Homer visits Hazlitt his books on titles of honour a list of friends on Wither on epitaphs his aquavorousness a servant difficulty and Hazlitt's Chronicle appointment on the Excursion and The Champion blown up by Hazlitt his new book room and Gifford a landed proprietor on Wordsworth's 1815 poems on Vincent Bourne his office work on presents on the India House shackles his diffidence as a critic on his sister's illnesses he lies to Manning on Coleridge and Wordsworth on Christabel his borrowed good things on Australia on distant correspondents as matter-of-lie man his Hogarths on the plague of friends his after-dinner speeches on Peter Bell on Mackery End on The Waggoner on two inks his proposal to Miss Kelly at Cambridge on William Wordsworth on other C L.'s on Lord Byron on book-borrowing at Haydon's and Leigh Hunt and his aunt's cake in praise of pig on death his efforts for Godwin his directions for seeing Paris and his child-wife on India House on Shelley on Godwin's case and Scott on Moore on Defoe his epigram on Wadd on George Fox as Elia on the advantages of routine on publishers his propensity to lie on Fox on Quakers on India House in Parnassus, 651 his after-dinner speeches on Fox on Colebrooke Cottage makes his will at the Mansion House on Physiology on Marlowe and Goethe his cold not a good man on monetary gifts and Thackeray on booksellers breaking Hazlitt on resignation his release his pension on fish ill on magazine payment on puns on Hood's Odes on Signor Velluti on the death of children lines to Hone his last London article on Hood on Quarles and Herbert on stationery on Manning on a cold on Brook Pulham's etching on Hastings on Fletcher's play on publishers his autobiography on Sunday his savings on Randal Norris at Goddard House School and Mrs. Norris's pension his criticism of Patmores Chatsworth his difficulties with the drama on Cary on memorials on Albums on mad dogs his house at Enfield and Mathew's picture his epigram on the Edward crosses portraits of him on milestones on the Pilgrim's Progress his serenata for Cowden Clarke's marriage his favourite walk his namesake will write for antiquity his "Gypsy's Malison" his sonnet on Daniel Rogers on Thomas Aquinas on the Laureates his joke upon Robinson in London in 1829 and Mary Lamb's absence and the burden of leisure moves to the Westwoods on Defoe on Thomas Westwood on bankrupts on town and country asked to collect his Specimens the journey from Fornham his turnip joke his skill at acrostics on an escapade and Merchant Taylors' boys and the Hone subscription on Music on Martin Burney visits London in 1830 on his critics and his will on incendiarism on Dyer's blindness on Christ's Hospital days on Coleridge's pension on Montgomery's "Common Lot" and the Englishman's Magazine on FitzGerald's "Meadows in Spring" on Unitarians on his unsaleability on Coleridge's imagined affront on "Rose Aylmer" his pensioners his advice on speculation spurious letter of mistaken for a murderer his sonnet on women's names and the Elia lawsuit injury to his leg on John Taylor, 966. leaves Enfield for Edmonton on the Last Essays of Elia his gift of Milton to Wordsworth at Widford his coffin nails on Emma Isola's marriage reads the Inferno his London holiday his request for books on Mr. Fuller Russell's poetry on Coleridge's death on his excesses at Gary's his jokes on widows his name child Procter's "Epistle" to

Elizabeth, her death and her daughter and John Lamb, jr. and her sister-in-law

John, his querulousness his death the younger, his accident and the tragedy on Coleridge his pamphlet his portrait of Milton knocks down Hazlitt death of

Mrs. John. See Letters.

Mary. See Letters. her frenzy and her mother her recovery dedication to Lamb's second sonnet to removed from confinement, her 1798 relapse invited to Stowey her first poem her appetite taken ill on her brother on secrecy on her mother and her aunt two poems on John Wordsworth's death two other poems by her calligraphy projecting literary work on marriage plans for new books on Coleridge in 1806 her silk dress on presents on Coleridge her water cure on marriage appeals for Miss Fricker her letter to a child discovers a room her article on Needlework her first joke on the Cambridge excursion on roadside churches at the window on the death of a child teaches Miss Kelly Latin and learns French ill in France as a smuggler her illness drawn by Hood her sonnet to Emma Isola her 1827 illness her 1829 illness her verses on her brother moved to Edmonton and Emma Isola's marriage Lamb's praise of her death on Mrs. Norris's death

Sarah (Aunt Hetty) and the rich relative her death her funeral and her sister-in-law

Landon, Letitia E.

Landor, Walter Savage. See Letters. his Julian his Imaginary Conversations and Elia his visit to Lamb his verses for Emma Isola his "Rose Aylmer" his verses on Lamb

Last Essays of Elia

Latin letters by Lamb

Laureates, Lamb on the

_Lay of Marie, The

Legal joke, a

Le Grice, C.V.

Samuel

Leishman, Mrs.

Leonardo da Vinci

"Leonora," by Buerger

Letters in verse

"Letter to an Old Gentleman"

"Lewti," by Coleridge

Lies

"Lime-tree Bower," Coleridge's poem

Lincolnshire and the Lambs

Liston, John

Literary Gazette, The

"Living without God in the World"

Livingston, Mr. Luther S.

Lloyd, Charles, the elder, described by Robert Lloyd the elder, Lamb's letters to

the younger. See Letters. his career to 1796 his sonnets on "Priscilla Farmer" Lamb's lines to on Lamb his illness and Coleridge at Southey's and Sophia Pemberton Lamb's lines on a quarrel averted the quarrel with Coleridge letter to Cottle and The Anti-Jacobin and Mary Hayes his first-born an "American" described by Robert Lloyd a lost letter to his illness in 1815 in London, in 1819 his Desultory Thoughts in London his Poems, 1823

Olivia

Priscilla

Robert, Lamb's first letter to with Lamb advice from his sister advice from Lamb in London, 1800 Lamb's letters to on his father his marriage in London his death

Sophia

Lockhart, J.G.

Lofft, Capell

Logan quoted

London, Lamb's praise of

London Magazine, The

London Tavern dinner

"Londoner, The," by Lamb

Lord Chief Justice, Lamb on

Lord Mayor of London and Leviathan

Lottery puffs tickets

"Love will Come," by Lamb

Love sonnets, Lamb's

Lovell, Robert

Luther in the Warteburg

lyrical Ballads

M

Mackery End, Lamb on

Mackintosh, Sir James, Lamb's epigram

Macready and Lamb

Magazines, Lamb on

Man, Henry, his epigram

"Man of Ross"

Manning, Thomas. See Letters. his career to 1799 his grimaces his letters to Lamb unpublished Setters from Lamb first news of China in Paris and Napoleon his Chinese project he leaves for China Thibet and China his return to England on Wordsworth and Fanny Holcroft at the Lambs Lamb on his last days

Mansion House, Lamb at

Marlowe, Christopher

Marriage, Lamb on

Mary Lamb on

Marshall, Godwin's friend

Marter, William. See Letters.

Martin, John

Louisa, viii.

Marvell quoted

Mary of Buttermere

Maseres, Baron

Massinger, Philip

Mathematics and Lamb

Mathews, Charles, his picture

Mrs. Charles, and the Lambs

Mathias' Pursuits of Literature

"Matter-of-lie man," Lamb as

May, John

William, I.

"Meadows in Spring," by FitzGerald

Mellish, Mr.

Mellon, Harriet

Merchant Taylors' epigrams

Meyer, Henry, "The Young Catechist" his portrait of Lamb

Milestones, Lamb on

Milton, John, and Cowper

Milton, John, his Defence John Lamb's portrait Lamb's gift to Wordsworth

Mitchell, Thomas

Mitford, Rev. John

Mary Russell

Monkhouse, Thomas

"Monody on Chatterton"

Montagu, Basil. See Letters.

Mrs. Basil. See Letters.

Montgomery, James, and chimney-sweepers his "Common Lot"

Moore, Thomas, and Lamb

Morgan, John

Mrs. John

Morning Chronicle

Morning Post

Moving, Lamb on

Moxon, Edward. See Letters. first mention his career to 1826 Lamb's first letter to his early poems his Christmas his Nightingale sonnet and Rogers his Reflector small commissions for Lamb and Murray his proposal to Miss Isola his Oak sonnet his marriage his sonnets

"Mr. H."

Mrs. Leicester's School

Mrs. Leslie and Her Grandchildren

Murray, John

Music, Lamb on

N

Napoleon and Manning and Cromwell his height

Nayler, James

Necessarianism

Nelson, his death

New Monthly Magazine

New River, Lamb on

"New Year's Eve"

New Year's Eve, A, by Barton

"Newspapers," Lamb's essay on

Norris, Miss Jane. See Letters.

Randal

Mrs. Randal. See Letters.

Richard

Nott, Dr. John

Novello, Clara (Countess Gigliucci)

Vincent. See Letters.

Mrs. Vincent. See Letters.

Novellos, the

O

Ode on the Departing Year

"Ode to the Treadmill"

Odes and Addresses, by Hood and Reynolds

Office work, Lamb on

"Old Actors, The"

"Old Familiar Faces, The"

Oilier, C. and J. See Letters.

"On an Infant Dying as soon as Born"

"Osorio," Coleridge's drama

Oxford, Lamb at

P

Paice, Joseph

Palmerston, Lord

Pantisocracy, II.

Pardo, Father

Paris, Lamb on

Mrs.

Park, Judge

Parr, Dr., and Lamb

Parsons, Mrs.

Pasta, Madame

Patmore, Coventry

P.G. See Letters. John Scott's second a nonsense letter to his Chatsworth his imitation of Lamb seeking a publisher

Paul, C. Kegan, and the "Theses"

"Pawnbroker's Daughter, The"

Payne, John Howard. See Letters.

Peacock, Ensign

Pemberton, Sophia

Penn, William, his No Cross, No Crown

Persian ambassador

Peter Bell, by Wordsworth

Peter Bell the Third

"Peter's Net"

Philip Quarll

Phillips, Colonel

Ned

Sir Richard

Phillips's Theatrum Poetarum

Physiology, Lamb on

Pictures, Lamb on

Pig, Lamb's praise of

Pilgrims Progress

Pindar, Peter

"Pipos." See Derwent Coleridge

"Pizarro," Sheridan's play

Plantus, Joseph

Plea of the Midsummer Fairies

Plumer family

Plura, a mysterious woman

"Poetic Sympathies," by George Dyer

Poetry for Children

Poets' dinner party

"Poet's Epitaph," by Wordsworth

Political Decameron, The

Pompey, Lamb's dog

Poole, John

Thomas. See Letters.

"Poor Susan, Reverie of"

Pope, Alexander

"Popular Fallacies"

Postage rates in 1797

Presentation copies, Lamb on

Presents, Lamb on

"Pride's Cure." See John Woodvil.

Priestley, Joseph

Procter, B.W. See Letters. See also Barry Cornwall. in 1823 his marriage and Lamb's will and Pulham's etching

Mrs., and Lamb

Prometheus Unbound story

Pry, Tom

Publishers, Lamb on

Pulham, Brook, his etching of Lamb

Pun at Salisbury

Puns, Lamb on

Purchas, His Pilgrimage

Pye, Henry James

Q

Quakers

Quarles, Lamb on

Quarterly Review, Lamb's review for and Lamb

Quillinan, Edward

R

Recreations in Agriculture, etc.

Reflector, The, Moxon's paper

Reform Bill

Rejected Addresses

Rejected Articles

"Religion of Actors"

"Religious Musings"

Rembrandt

"Remorse," by Coleridge

Reynolds, John Hamilton

Miss

Mrs., Lamb's schoolmistress

Rheumatism, Lamb on

"Richard II.," Lamb's epilogue to

Richmond, the Lambs at

Rickman, John. See Letters.

Miss

Mrs.

Rigg children, Lamb's verses on

Rimini, Leigh Hunt's poem

"Road to Ruin, The"

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson, Anthony

Mrs. Anthony

Henry Crabb. See Letters. he meets Lamb Lamb on and "Peter Bell," his admiration of Wordsworth his presents to Lamb at Monkhouse's dinner his present to Mary Lamb his rheumatism.

Thomas. See Letters.

Roderick, by Southey

Rogers, Daniel, Lamb's sonnet on

Rogers, Samuel. See Letters. and Coleridge and Wordsworth's "Force of Prayer" at Monkhouse's dinner his letter to Lamb and Moxon his Italy and John Bull and G. Dyer Lamb's sonnet to

Romilly, Sir Samuel

Rosamund Gray

"Rose Aylmer," by Landor

Roxana

Russell, J. Fuller. See Letters. and Satan in Search of a Wife his poem criticised

Ryle, Charles

S

Sadler's Wells

"Saint Charles"

"St. Crispin to Mr. Gifford"

St. Luke's Hospital

Salisbury, Lamb's pun at

Salt-water soap

Salutation and Cat

Sargus, Mr. See Letters. Lamb's tenant

Satan in Search of a Wife

Savage, Richard

Savory, Hester

Scott, John. See Letters.

Sir Walter. See Letters.

Sentiment, Lamb on

Settle, Elkanah

Shakespeare, George Dyer on the Bellows portrait and Elia his illustrations

"She dwelt among the untrodden ways"

Sheep-stealing, Lamb on

Shelley, P.B. death of Lamb on Hazlitt on, "Lines to a Reviewer"

Mrs. P.B. See Letters.

Sheridan and Lamb

Simmons, Ann

Simonds, the ghoul

Six Months in the West Indies

Skeffington, Sir Lumley

Skiddaw, Lamb on

Smith, Charlotte

Mrs.

Smoking, Lamb on

Snakes, Lamb visits

"Soldier's Daughter, The," by J. Howard Payne

Sonnet to Elia on "Work"

"Sonnet to a Nameless Friend"

Southampton Buildings

Southey, Edith sonnet to

Dr.

Robert, his Joan of Arc 1796 and Cowper his daetyl and Coleridge his Madoc entertains Lamb and Lloyd and the "Sonnet to Simplicity" his Joan of Arc his "Eclogues" on "The Ancient Mariner" his Poems, 2nd edition his description of Manning in Dublin on the perfect household his Curse of Kehama his Roderick death of his son the lapidary style his fortune his criticism of Elia Lamb's Letter to his reply to Lamb his Tale of Paraguay his Book of the Church his "Vesper Bell" his "Chapel Bell" his Life of Bunyan and Hone his defence of Lamb

Spenser, Edmund, and Mr. Spencer his sonnet to Harvey

Spirit of the Age, The

"Spiritual Law," by Barton

Stamps, Comptroller of

Stationery, Lamb on

Stoddart, John. See Letters.

Lady. See Letters.

Sarah (afterwards Sarah Hazlitt). See Letters. her love affairs her mother's illness plans for her wedding her wedding

Stoke Newington, the Lambs at

Stothard, Thomas, Lamb's lines to

Stowey, Lamb at

Stuart, Daniel, on Lamb

Sunday, Lamb on

"Superannuated Man"

"Supersedeas," by Wither

"Suum Cuique," by Lamb

Swift, Dean

Swinburne, A.C., and Lamb, and

Hugo on Lamb's dramatic suggestions

Sydney, Sir Philip, and Lamb

Sylvia, by George Darley

T

Table Book, Lamb's fable

Tailors, Lamb on

Tales from Shakespear

Talfourd, Thomas Noon. See Letters. made a serjeant his "Verses in Memory of a Child"

Talma and Lamb

"Tartar Drum," Lamb's version

Tartary, Lamb on

Tatler, The, and Jerdan

Tayler, C.B.

Taylor, Jeremy John. See Letters. editor of the London Magazine and the Elia lawsuit

Temple finally left

Thackeray and Lamb

Thanksgiving Ode, by Wordsworth

Thekla's song in "Wallenstein"

Thelwall, John

"Theses Quaedam Theologicae"

Thievery in Australia

Thurlow, Lord

Thurtell the murderer

Titian, Mary Lamb's verses the Music Piece

Titles of honour, Lamb on

"To a Bird that Haunted the Waters of Lacken"

"To Emma Learning Latin and Desponding"

"To a Friend on his Marriage"

"To the Poet Cowper"

"To Sarah and her Samuel"

"To my Sister," sonnet

"To a Young Lady going out to India"

Tobin, James Webbe

John

"Tomb of Douglas, The"

"Tooth-ache and Gum-boil"

Towers, Mrs., Lamb's sonnet to

Town and country, Lamb on

Toynbee, Dr. Paget

"Translation of Enoch," by Barton

Travels, Lamb on

Trelawney, E.J.

Trimmer, Mrs.

Tunbridge Wells, the Lambs at

Turbot, Lamb on

Turnips and legs of mutton

Tuthill, Sir George

Twiss, Horace

U

Unitarianism

V

Velluti, Signer

"Vindictive Man, The"

Virgin and Child, Mary Lamb's verses

"Vision of Horns"

"Vision of Judgment," by Byron

"Vision of Repentance, A"

Voltaire and Congreve

Voltaire and Wordsworth Lamb on

W

Wadd, Lamb's colleague

Waggoner, The

Wainewright, T.G., See also "Janus Weathercock"

Walton, Isaak

Warner's Syrinx

Watch, Emma Isola's

Watchman, The

Webster, his "Vittoria Corombona"

Wednesdays, Lamb's evening

Wesley, Miss

Westwood, Thomas Cottage

Wharry, Dr.

Whist

"White Devil, The"

White Doe of Rylstone

White, Edward James

Widford

"Widow, The"

Widow's Tale, The, by Barton

Widows, a list of

"Wife, The," by Sheridan Knowles

"Wife's Trial, The," by Lamb

Wilde, Serjeant

William IV.

Williams, Mrs. See Letters and Emma Isola and the acrostics

Wilson, John, his biography

Wilson, Walter. See Letters. and Lamb's apology Lamb's fellow-clerk visits Lamb his Life of Defoe

Windham, William

Winterslow the Lambs at

"Witch, The," by Lamb

Wither, George, and Quarles Lamb on his "Supersedeas"

Woolman, John

Wordsworth, Dorothy. See Letters. at Stowey a letter from her poems

Wordsworth, William, See Letters. at Stowey and Coleridge in Germany his economy Lyrical Ballads, 2nd edition at Bartholomew Fair his marriage his L8 worth of books and Shakespeare his difference with Coleridge The Excursion and Voltaire his Poems, 1815 edition his illegible hand on Burns and Peter Bell the Third The Waggoner his Duddon sonnets at Haydon's

Wordsworth, William, at Monkhouse's dinner in London his Milton, a gift from Lamb

John, his death William, jr.

"Work," Lamb's sonnet

Works, Lamb's

Worsley, Lady Frances

Wortley, Lady Mary

Wroughton, Richard, his letter about "Mr. H."

Y

"Yarrow Visited"

"Yew Trees," Wordsworth's poem

"Young Catechist, The"

Z

"Zapolya"

THE END