Chapter 355

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., _née_ 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 (_née_ 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 Staël, 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

Fénélon

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 Bürger

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 £8 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"