Chapter 299

CHARLES LAMB TO EDWARD MOXON

[Feb. 10. P.M. Feby. 11, 1833.]

I wish you would omit "by the author of Elia," _now_, in advertising that damn'd "Devil's Wedding."

I had sneaking hopes you would have dropt in today--tis my poor birthday. Don't stay away so. Give Forster a hint--you are to bring your brother some day--_sisters_ in better weather.

Pray give me one line to say if you receiv'd and forwarded Emma's pacquet to Miss Adams,

and how Dover St. looks.

Adieu.

Is there no Blackwood this month?

[_Added on cover_:--]

What separation will there be between the friend's preface, and THE ESSAYS? Should not "Last Essays &c." head them? If 'tis too late, don't mind. I don't care a farthing about it.

["What separation"--the _Last Essays of Elia_ were preceded by "A Character of the Late Elia."

Here should come a letter from Lamb to Louisa Badams, dated February 15, 1833. Lamb begins with a further reference to the Enfield murder. He says that his sister and himself have got through the _Inferno_ with the help of Cary, and Mary is beginning Tasso.]