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THE LETTERS OF CHARLES AND MARY LAMB
1796-1820
EDITED BY E. V. LUCAS
WITH A FRONTISPIECE
PREFACE
This edition of the correspondence of Charles and Mary Lamb contains 618 letters, of which 45 are by Mary Lamb alone. It is the only edition to contain all Mary Lamb's letters and also a reference to, or abstract of, every letter of Charles Lamb's that cannot, for reasons of copyright, be included. Canon Ainger's last edition contains 467 letters and the Every-man's Library Edition contains 572. In 1905 the Boston Bibliophile Society, a wealthy association of American collectors, issued privately—since privately one can do anything—an edition in six volumes (limited to 453 sets) of the correspondence of Charles and Mary Lamb, containing everything that was available, which means practically everything that was known: the number reaching a total of 762 letters; but it will be many years before such a collection can be issued in England, since each of the editions here has copyright matter peculiar to itself. My attempt to induce the American owner of the largest number of new letters to allow me to copy them from the Boston Bibliophile edition has proved fruitless.
And here a word as to copyright in such documents in England, the law as most recently laid down being established upon a set of sixteen of Lamb's letters which unhappily are not (except in very brief abstract) in the present edition. These letters, chiefly to Robert Lloyd, were first published in Charles Lamb and the Lloyds, under my editorship, in 1900, the right to make copies and publish them having been acquired by Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. from Mrs. Steeds, a descendant of Charles Lloyd. The originals were then purchased by Mr. J. M. Dent, who included copies in his edition of Lamb's letters, under Mr. Macdonald's editorship, in 1903. Meanwhile Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. had sold their rights in the letters to Messrs. Macmillan for Canon Ainger's edition, and when Mr. Dent's edition was issued Messrs. Macmillan with Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. brought an action. Mr. Dent thereupon acquired from Mr. A. H. Moxon, the son of Emma Isola, Lamb's residuary legatee, all his rights as representing the original author. The case was heard before Mr. Justice Kekewich early in 1906. The judge held that "the proprietor of the author's manuscript in the case of letters, as in the case of any other manuscript, meant the owner of the actual paper on which the matter was written, and that in the case of letters the recipient was the owner. No doubt the writer could restrain the recipient from publishing, and so could the writer's representatives after death; but although they had the right to restrain others from publishing, it did not follow that they had the right to publish and acquire copyright. This right was given to the proprietor of the manuscript, who, although he could be restrained from publishing by the writer's personal representatives, yet, if not so restrained, could publish and acquire copyright."
Mr. Dent appealed against this verdict and his appeal was heard on October 31 and November 7, 1906, when the decision of Mr. Justice Kekewich was upheld with a clearer definition of the right of restraint. The Court, in deciding (I quote again from Mr. MacGillivray's summary) that "the proprietors of manuscript letters were, after the writer's death, entitled to the copyright in them when published, were careful to make it clear that they did not intend to overrule the authority of those cases where a deceased man's representatives have been held entitled to restrain the publication of his private letters by the recipients or persons claiming through them. The Court expressly affirmed the common law right of the writer and his representatives in unpublished letters. It did not follow that because the copyright, if there was publication, would be in the person who, being proprietor of the author's manuscript, first published, that that person would be entitled to publish. The common law right would be available to enable the legal personal representatives, under proper circumstances, to restrain publication." That is how the copyright law as regards letters stands to-day (1912).
The present edition has been revised throughout and in it will be found much new material. I have retained from the large edition only such notes as bear upon the Lambs and the place of the letters in their life, together with such explanatory references as seemed indispensable. For the sources of quotations and so forth the reader must consult the old edition.
For permission to include certain new letters I have to thank the Master of Magdalene, Mr. Ernest Betham, Major Butterworth, Mr. Bertram Dobell, Mr. G. Dunlop, and Mr. E. D. North of New York.
As an example of other difficulties of editing, at any given time, the correspondence of Charles and Mary Lamb, I may say that while these volumes were going through the press, Messrs. Sotheby offered for sale new letters by both hands, the existence of which was unknown equally to English editors and to Boston Bibliophiles. The most remarkable of them is a joint letter from sister and brother to Louisa Martin, their child-friend (to whom Lamb wrote the verses "The Ape"), dated March 28, 1809. Mary begins, and Charles then takes the pen and becomes mischievous. Thus, "Hazlitt's child died of swallowing a bag of white paint, which the poor little innocent thing mistook for sugar candy. It told its mother just before it died, that it did not like soft sugar candy, and so it came out, which was not before suspected. When it was opened several other things were found in it, particularly a small hearth brush, two golden pippins, and a letter which I had written to Hazlitt from Bath. The letter had nothing remarkable in it." … The others are from brother and sister to Miss Kelly, the actress, whom Lamb, in 1819, wished to marry. The first, March 27, 1820, is from Mary Lamb saying that she has taken to French as a recreation and has been reading Racine. The second is from Lamb, dated July 6, 1825, thanking Miss Kelly for tickets at Arnold's theatre, the Lyceum, and predicting the success of his farce "The Pawnbroker's Daughter." How many more new letters are still to come to light, who shall say?
In Mr. Bedford's design for the cover of this edition certain Elian symbolism will be found. The upper coat of arms is that of Christ's Hospital, where Lamb was at school; the lower is that of the Inner Temple, where he was born and spent many years. The figures at the bells are those which once stood out from the façade of St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street, and are now in Lord Londesborough's garden in Regent's Park. Lamb shed tears when they were removed. The tricksy sprite and the candles (brought by Betty) need no explanatory words of mine.
E. V. L.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME V
LETTERS BY NUMBER
1796.
1 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge May 27 From the original in the possession of Mrs. Alfred Morrison.
2 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge End of May?
From the original (Morrison Collection).
3 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge June 10
From the original (Morrison Collection).
4 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge June 13
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn's edition).
5 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge July 1
From the original (Morrison Collection).
6 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge July 5
From the facsimile of the original (Mr. E.
H. Coleridge).
7 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge July 6
From the original (Morrison Collection).
8 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Sept. 27
From the original (Morrison Collection).
9 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Oct. 3
From the original (Morrison Collection).
10 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Oct. 17
From the original (Morrison Collection).
11 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Oct. 24
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
12 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Oct. 28
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
13 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Nov. 8
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
14 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Nov. 14
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
15 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Dec. 2
From the original (Morrison Collection).
16 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Dec. 5
From the original (Morrison Collection).
17 Charles Lamb to S. T, Coleridge Dec. 9
Mr. Hazlitt's text (The Lambs).
18 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Dec. 10
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
1797.
19 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Jan. 2
From the original (Morrison Collection).
20 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Jan. 10
From the original (Morrison Collection).
21 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Jan. 18
From the original (Morrison Collection).
22 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Feb. 5
From the original (Morrison Collection).
23 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Feb. 13
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
24 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge April 7
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
25 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge April 15
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
26 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge June 13
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
27 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge June 24
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
28 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge (?)June 29
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
29 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Late July
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
30 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Aug. 24
From the original (Morrison Collection).
31 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge About Sept. 20
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
1798.
32 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Jan. 28
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
33 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Early summer
From the original in the Gluck Collection at Buffalo, U.S.A.
34 Charles Lamb to Robert Southey July 28
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
35 Charles Lamb to Robert Southey Oct. 18
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
36 Charles Lamb to Robert Southey Oct. 29
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
37 Charles Lamb to Robert Southey Nov. 3
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
38 Charles Lamb to Robert Southey Nov. 8
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
39 Charles Lamb to Robert Southey ?Nov.
Mr. Hazlitt's text (The Lambs).
40 Charles Lamb to Robert Southey Nov. 28
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
41 Charles Lamb to Robert Southey Dec. 27
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
1799.
42 Charles Lamb to Robert Southey Jan. 21
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
43 Charles Lamb to Robert Southey Jan. or Feb.
From the original.
44 Charles Lamb to Robert Southey March 15
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
45 Charles Lamb to Robert Southey March 20
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
46 Charles Lamb to Robert Southey Oct. 31
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
47 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Dec.
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
48 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Dec. 28
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
1800.
49 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge ?Jan. 23
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
50 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Feb. 13
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
51 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning March 1
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
52 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning March 17
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
53 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning April 5
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
54 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge ?April 16 or 17
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
55 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge ?Spring
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
56 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge May 12
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
57 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning May 20
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
58 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning ?May 25
59 Charles Lamb to J. M. Gutch No date
From Mr. G. A. Gutch's original.
60 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge ?Late July
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
61 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Aug. 6
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
62 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Aug. 9
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
63 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Aug. 11
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
64 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Aug. 14
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
65 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Aug. 24
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
66 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Aug. 26
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
67 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Aug. 28
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
68 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Sept. 22
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
69 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Oct. 16
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
70 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Nov. 3
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
71 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Nov. 28
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
72 Charles Lamb to William Godwin Dec. 4
Mr. Kegan Paul's text (William Godwin: His Friends, etc.).
73 Charles Lamb to William Godwin No date
Mr. Kegan Paul's text (William Godwin: His Friends, etc.).
74 Charles Lamb to William Godwin Dec. 10
Mr. Kegan Paul's text (William Godwin: His Friends, etc.).
75 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Dec. 13
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
76 Charles Lamb to William Godwin Dec. 14
Mr. Kegan Paul's text (William Godwin: His Friends, etc.).
77 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Dec. 16
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
78, 79 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning End of year
From The Athenaeum.
80 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Dec. 27
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
1801.
81 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth. Jan. 30
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
82 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Feb. 15
Canon Ainger's text.
83 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Late Feb.
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
84 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning April
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
85 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning ?April
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
86 Charles Lamb to William Godwin June 29
Mr. Kegan Paul's text (William Godwin: His Friends, etc.).
87 Charles Lamb to Walter Wilson Aug. 14
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
88 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning ?Aug.
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
89 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Aug. 31
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
90 Charles Lamb to William Godwin Sept. 9
Mr. Kegan Paul's text (William Godwin: His Friends, etc.).
91 Charles Lamb to William Godwin (fragment) Sept. 17
Mr. Kegan Paul's text (William Godwin: His Friends, etc.).
92 Charles Lamb to Mrs. Godwin No date
Mr. Kegan Paul's text (William Godwin: His Friends, etc.).
93 Charles Lamb to John Rickman ?Nov.
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
1802.
94 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning ?Feb. 15
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
95 Charles Lamb to John Rickman April 10
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
96 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning ?End of April
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
97 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge (fragment) Sept. 8
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
98 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Sept. 24
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
99 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Oct. 9
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
100 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Oct. 11
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
101 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge (fragment) Oct. 23
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
102 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Nov. 4
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
103 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Nov.
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) and Talfourd, with alterations.
1803.
104 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Feb. 19
Mr. Hazlitt's text (The Lambs) with alterations.
105 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning March
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
106 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth March 5
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
107 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge April 13
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
108 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge May
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
109 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge May 27
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
110 Mary Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth. July 9
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
111 Charles Lamb to John Rickman July 16
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
112 Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Sept. 21
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Mary And Charles Lamb).
113 Charles Lamb to William Godwin Nov. 8
Mr. Kegan Paul's text (William Godwin: His Friends, etc.).
114 Charles Lamb to William Godwin Nov. 10
Mr. Kegan Paul's text (William Godwin: His Friends, etc.).
1804.
115 Charles Lamb to Thomas Poole. Feb. 14
From original in British Museum.
116 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge March 10
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
117 Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart ?March
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Mary and Charles Lamb).
118 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge April 5
From the original (Morrison Collection).
119 Charles Lamb to Thomas Poole May 4
From original in British Museum.
120 Charles Lamb to Thomas Poole May 5
From original in British Museum.
121 Charles Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth June 2
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
122 Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart } 123 Charles Lamb to Sarah Stoddart } Late July Mr. Hazlitt's text (Mary and Charles Lamb).
124 Part I., Charles Lamb to William }
Wordsworth }
125 Part II., Mary Lamb to Dorothy }
Wordsworth } Oct. 13
126 Part III., Mary Lamb to Mrs. S.T. }
Coleridge }
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
127 Charles Lamb to Robert Southey Nov. 7
1805.
128 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth Feb. 18
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
129 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth Feb. 19
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
130 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Feb. 23
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
131 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth March 5
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
132 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth March 21
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
133 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth April 5
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
134 Mary Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth May 7
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
135 Charles Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth June 14
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
136 Charles Lamb to Thomas manning July 27
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
137 Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart ?Sept. 18
From the original.
138 Charles Lamb to William and Dorothy
Wordsworth Sept. 28
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
139 Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Early Nov.
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Mary and Charles Lamb).
140 Charles Lamb to William Hazlitt Nov. 10
From the original.
141 Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Nov. 9 and 14
From the original.
142 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Nov. 15
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
1806.
143 Charles Lamb to William Hazlitt Jan. 15
From the original.
144 Charles Lamb to John Rickman. Jan. 25
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
145 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth Feb. 1
From the original, recently in the possession of Mr. Gordon
Wordsworth.
146 Charles Lamb to William Hazlitt Feb. 19
From the original.
147 Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Feb. 20, 21 and 22
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Mary and Charles Lamb).
148 Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart March
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Mary and Charles Lamb).
149 Charles Lamb to John Rickman March
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
150 Charles Lamb to William Hazlitt March 15
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
151 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning May 10
Mr. Hazlitt's text (The Lambs).
152 Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart June 2
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Mary and Charles Lamb).
153 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth June 26
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
154 Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart ?July 4
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Mary and Charles Lamb).
155 Mary Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth Aug. 29
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
156 Mary Lamb to S. T. Coleridge. No date
From the original (Morrison Collection).
157 Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Oct. 23
From the original.
158 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Dec. 5
From the original.
159 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth Dec. 11
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
160 Charles Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Dec. 11
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
161 Charles Lamb to William Godwin No date
Mr. Kegan Paul's text (William Godwin: His Friends, etc.).
1807.
162 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth Jan. 29 From the original in Dr. Williams' Library.
163 Charles Lamb to T. and C. Clarkson June
From the original in the possession of
Mr. A.M.S. Emthuen.
164 Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Oct.
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Mary and Charles
Lamb).
165 Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Dec. 21
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Mary and Charles
Lamb).
1808.
166 Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddard Feb. 12
From the original.
167 Charles Lamb to the Rev. W. Hazlitt Feb. 18
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
168 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Feb. 26
From the original.
169 Charles lamb to Matilda Betham No date
From A House of Letters.
170 Charles Lamb to Matilda Betham No date
From A House of Letters.
171 Charles Lamb to William Godwin March 11
Mr. Kegan Paul's text (William Godwin
His Friends, etc.).
172 Charles Lamb to Henry Crabb Robinson March 12
From the original in Dr. Williams' Library
173 Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart March 16
From the original.
174 Charles Lamb to George Dyer Dec. 5
From The Mirror.
175 Mary Lamb to Sarah Hazlitt }
176 Charles Lamb to Sarah Hazlitt } Dec. 10
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Mary and Charles
Lamb).
177 Mary Lamb to Mrs. Clarkson } Dec. 10
178 Charles Lamb to Mrs. Clarkson }
from the original in the possession of Mr.
A.M.S. Methuen.
1809.
179 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning March 28
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations
180 Charles Lamb to Henry Crabb Robinson May
From the original in Dr. Williams' Library
181 Mary Lamb to Sarah Hazlitt June 2
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Mary and Charles
Lamb).
182 Charles Lamb to S.T. Coleridge June 7
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
183 Charles Lamb to S.T. Coleridge Oct. 30
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
184 Mary Lamb to Sarah Hazlitt Nov. 7
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Mary and Charles
Lamb).
1810.
185 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Jan. 2
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
186 Charles Lamb to Henry Crabb Robinson Feb. 7
From the original in Dr. Williams' Library.
187 Charles Lamb to the J.M. Gutch April 9
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
188 Charles Lamb to Basil Montagu July 12
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
189 Charles Lamb to William Hazlitt Aug. 9
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
190 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth Oct. 19
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
191 Mary Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth } 192 Charles Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth } Nov. 13 From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original. }
193 Mary Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth } 194 Charles Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth } Nov. 23 From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original. }
195 Charles Lamb to William Hazlitt Nov. 28 Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
196 Charles Lamb to William Godwin No date
Mr. Kegan Paul's text (William Godwin:
His Friends, etc.).
197 Mary Lamb to Sarah Hazlitt ? End of year
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Mary and Charles
Lamb).
1811.
198 Mary Lamb to Matilda Betham No date
Mr. Hazlitt's text (The Lambs).
199 Charles Lamb to John Morgan (fragment) March 8
From the original (Duchess of Albany)
200 Mary Lamb to Sarah Hazlitt }
201 Charles Lamb to William Hazlitt } Oct. 2
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Mary and Charles }
Lamb) and Bohn.
1812.
202 Charles Lamb to John Dyer Collier No date
J. P. Collier's text (An Old Man's Diary).
203 Mary Lamb to Mrs. John Dyer Collier No date
J. P. Collier's text (An Old Man's Diary).
[1813—no letters.]
1814.
204 Charles Lamb to John Scott ?Feb. From facsimile (Birkbeck Hill's Talks about Autographs).
205 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth Aug. 9
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
206 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Aug. 13
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
207 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Aug. 26
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
208 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth Sept. 19
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
209 Mary Lamb to Barbara Betham Nov. 2
Mr. Hazlitt's text (The Lambs).
210 Charles Lamb to John Scott Dec. 12
From Mr. R. B. Adam's original.
211 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth Dec. 28
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
1815.
212 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth ?Early Jan. From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
213 Charles Lamb to Mr. Sargus Feb. 23
From the original in the possession of Mr.
Thomas Greg.
214 Charles Lamb to Joseph Hume No date
Mr. Kegan Paul's text (William Godwin:
His Friends, etc.).
215 Charles Lamb to [Mrs. Hume?] No date
From the American owner.
216 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth April 7
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
217 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth April 28
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
218 Charles Lamb to Robert Southey May 6
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
219 Charles Lamb to Robert Southey Aug. 9
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
220 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth Aug. 9
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
221 Mary Lamb to Sarah Hutchinson Aug. 20
222 Charles Lamb to Sarah Hutchinson Aug. 20
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
223 Mary Lamb to Matilda Betham ?Late summer
From Fraser's Magazine.
224 Charles Lamb to Matilda Betham No date
From A House of Letters.
225 Charles Lamb to Matilda Betham No date
Mr. Hazlitt's text (The Lambs).
226 Charles Lamb to Sarah Hutchinson Oct. 19
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
227 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Dec. 25
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
228 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Dec. 26
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
1816.
229 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth April 9
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
230 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth April 26
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
231 Charles Lamb to Matilda Betham June 1
From Fraser's Magazine.
232 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth Sept. 23
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
233 Mary Lamb to Sarah Hutchinson Middle of Nov.
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
234 Mary Lamb to Sarah Hutchinson Late in year
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
1817.
235 Charles Lamb to William Ayrton May 12
From Ayrton's transcript in Lamb's Works, Vol. III.
236 Charles Lamb to Barren Field Aug. 31
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
237 Charles Lamb to James and Louisa Kenney Oct.
Text from Mr. Samuel Davey.
238 Mary Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth Nov. 21
239 Charles Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth Nov. 21
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
240 Charles Lamb to John Payne Collier. Dec. 10
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
241 Charles Lamb to Benjamin Robert Haydon Dec. 26
From Tom Taylor's Life of Haydon.
1818.
242 Charles Lamb to Mrs. William Wordsworth Feb. 18
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
243 Charles Lamb to Charles and James Ollier June 18
From the original (Morrison Collection).
244 Charles Lamb to Robert Southey Oct. 26
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
245 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Dec. 24
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
1819.
246 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth April 26
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
247 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning May 28
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
248 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth June 7
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
249 Charles Lamb to Fanny Kelly July 20
Mr. John Hollingshead's text (Harper's Magazine).
250 Charles Lamb to Fanny Kelly July 20
John Hollingshead's text (Harper's Magazine).
251 Charles Lamb to Thomas Noon Talfourd(?) August
(Original in the possession of the Master of Magdelene.)
252 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge ?Summer
From the original (Morrison Collection).
253 Charles Lamb to Thomas Holcroft, Jr. Autumn
From the original (Morrison Collection).
254 Charles Lamb to Joseph Cottle Nov. 5
Mr. Hazlitt's text.
255 Charles Lamb to Joseph Cottle (incomplete) Late in year
Mr. Hazlitt's text.
256 Charles Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth Nov. 25
From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
1820.
257 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Jan. 10
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
258 Mary Lamb to Mrs. Vincent Novello Spring
From the Cowden Clarkes' Recollections of Writers.
259 Charles Lamb to Joseph Cottle May 26
Mr. Hazlitt's text.
260 Charles Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth May 25
From Professor Knight's Life of Wordsworth.
261 Charles Lamb to Thomas Allsop July 13
262 Charles and Mary Lamb to Samuel James Arnold No date
263 Charles Lamb to Barron Field Aug. 16
Mr. Hazlitt's text (The Lambs).
263A Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge ?Autumn
Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
APPENDIX
Coleridge's "Ode on the Departing Year"
Wither's "Supersedeas"
Dyer's "Poetic Sympathies" (fragment)
Haydon's Party (from Taylor's Life of Haydon)