Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon, [19 March 1833]
I SHALL expect Forster and two Moxons on Sunday, and hope for Procter.
I am obliged to be in town next Monday. Could we contrive
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make a party (paying or
not is immaterial) for Miss
Kelly’s that night, and can you shelter us after the play,
I mean Emma and me? I fear, I cannot
persuade Mary to join us.
N.B. I can sleep at a public house.
Send an Elia (mind, I insist on buying it) to T. Manning Esq. at Sir G.
Tuthill’s Cavendish Square.
do write.
John Forster (1812-1876)
English man of letters and friend of Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt who was editor of
The Examiner (1847-55) and the biographer of Goldsmith (1854),
Landor (1869), and Dickens (1872-74).
Frances Maria Kelly (1790-1882)
English actress and singer at Drury Lane and elsewhere; Charles Lamb proposed marriage
and later wrote an essay about her (“Barbara S”) in the
London
Magazine (1825).
Thomas Manning (1772-1840)
Educated at Caius College, Cambridge, he traveled in China and Tibet, and was a life-long
friend of Charles Lamb.
Edward Moxon (1801-1858)
Poet and bookseller; after employment at Longman and Company he set up in 1830 with
financial assistance from Samuel Rogers and became the leading publisher of literary
poetry.
Emma Lamb Moxon [née Isola] (1809-1891)
The orphaned daughter of Charles Isola adopted by Charles and Mary Lamb; after working as
a governess she married Edward Moxon in 1833.
Bryan Waller Procter [Barry Cornwall] (1787-1874)
English poet; a contemporary of Byron at Harrow, and friend of Leigh Hunt and Charles
Lamb. He was the author of several volumes of poem and
Mirandola, a
tragedy (1821).
Sir George Leman Tuthill (1772-1835)
Educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he was detained in France before
completing his medical education; he was physician to Westminster, Bridewell and Bethlem
hospitals. He was a friend of Thomas Manning and Charles Lamb; Mary Lamb was among his
patients.
