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A curated selection of correspondence by Charles and Mary Lamb, dated 1821–1842, that records domestic concerns, social visits, and exchanges with contemporary literary figures. The letters mix wit, descriptive anecdote, and practical detail—health, family, publishing, and everyday urban and provincial life—while occasional pieces show how private notes fed later essays. Editorial annotations identify recipients and variants, and appendices present related poems and tributes; chronological arrangement, indexes, and notes assist navigation. Together the documents illuminate the Lambs' conversational tone, social networks, and the texture of early nineteenth-century literary life without imposing an overarching narrative.

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