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"