Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Thomas Manning to Charles Lamb, May 1806
“Dear
Lamb—As we are not sailed yet, and I have a few minutes,
why should not I give you a line to say that I received your kind letter
yesterday, and shall read it again before I have done with it. I am sorry I had
not time to call on Mary, but I did not
even call on my own Father, and he’s 70 and loves me like a Father. I
don’t know that you can do any thing for me at the India House: if you
hear any thing there about me, communicate it to Mr. Crabtree, 13, Newgate Street. I am not dead,
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nor dying—some people go into Yorkshire for four
[years], and I have no currant jelly aboard. Tell Holcroft I received his kind letter.
Robert Crabtree (1772-1840)
Attorney of Halesworth, Suffolk; he married Elizabeth Tuthill (d. 1840).
Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809)
English playwright and novelist; a friend of William Godwin indicted for treason in 1794;
author of
The Road to Ruin (1792). His
Memoirs (1816) were completed by William Hazlitt.
Mary Anne Lamb (1764-1847)
Sister of Charles Lamb with whom she wrote Tales from Shakespeare (1807). She lived with
her brother, having killed their mother in a temporary fit of insanity.