Chapter 311

CHARLES LAMB TO JOHN FORSTER

[No date. ? March, 1833.]

Swallow your damn'd dinner and your brandy and water fast--

& come immediately

I want to take Knowles in to Emma's only female friend for 5 minutes only, and we are free for the even'g.

I'll do a Prologue.

[The prologue was for Sheridan Knowles' play "The Wife." Lamb wrote both prologue and epilogue (see Vol. IV.).]