Chapter CCCL: 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"