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The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 / Letters 1821-1842

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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.

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"