Educated at Christ's Hospital with Coleridge and Lamb, and at University College, Oxford, he wrote for the Oracle and other newspapers before taking an MD and working as an army surgeon.

REFERENCES TO Robert Allen:

Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 20 July 1794 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 27 May 1796 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [8 June 1796] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 6 July 1796 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 28 October 1796 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [5 February 1797] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 11 October 1802 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth [19 February 1805] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth [14 June 1805] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 27 May 1806 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to Nicholas Lightfoot, 18 June 1815 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to Nicholas Lightfoot, 13 May 1821 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)