Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Henry Crabb Robinson, 12 March 1808
[Dated at end: March 12, 1808.]
DEAR Sir,—Wordsworth breakfasts with me on Tuesday morning next; he goes
to Mrs. Clarkson the next day, and will
be glad to meet you before he goes. Can you come to us before nine or at nine
that morning? I am afraid, W. is so
engaged with Coleridge, who is ill, we
cannot have him in an evening. If I do not hear from you, I will expect you to
breakfast on Tuesday.
Yours truly,
C. Lamb.
Saturday, 12 Mar., 1808.
Catherine Clarkson [née Buck] (1772-1856)
An abolitionist who married Thomas Clarkson in 1796 and became a close friend of Dorothy
Wordsworth. Charles Lamb described her as “one of the friendliest, comfortablest
women we know.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
English poet and philosopher who projected
Lyrical Ballads (1798)
with William Wordsworth; author of
Biographia Literaria (1817),
On the Constitution of the Church and State (1829) and other
works.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
With Coleridge, author of
Lyrical Ballads (1798), Wordsworth
survived his early unpopularity to succeed Robert Southey as poet laureate in 1843.
