Chapter 45

CHARLES LAMB TO CHARLES ADERS

[Jan. 8, 1823.]

Dear Sir--We shall have great pleasure in surprising Mrs. Aders on her Birthday--You will perceive how cunningly I have contrived the direction of this note, _to evade postage_.

Yours truly

C. LAMB.

8 Jan. '23.

[This note is sent to me by Mr. G. Dunlop of Kilmarnock. It is the only note to Aders, a friend of Crabb Robinson, to whose house Lamb often went for talk and whist. Aders had a fine collection of German pictures. See the verses to him in Vol. IV. The cunning in the address consisted apparently in obtaining the signature of an India House colleague to certify that it was "official."]