Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to John Morgan, 8 March 1811
[Dated at end: March 8, 1811.]
THERE—don’t read any further, because the
Letter is not intended for you but for Coleridge, who might perhaps not have opened it directed to him
suo nomine. It is to invite C. to ![]()
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Lady Jerningham’s on Sunday. Her
address is to be found within. We come to Hammersmith notwithstanding on
Sunday, and hope Mrs. M. will not think
of getting us Green Peas or any such expensive luxuries. A plate of plain
Turtle, another of Turbot, with good roast Beef in the rear, and, as Alderman Curtis says, whoever can’t make
a dinner of that ought to be damn’d.
C. Lamb.
Friday night, 8 Mar., 1811.
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.
Sir William Curtis, first baronet (1752-1829)
A banker and friend of George IV; he was Lord Mayor of London (1795) and as Tory MP for
London (1790-1818) was a target of Whig mockery.
Lady Frances Jerningham [née Dillo] (1747 c.-1825)
The daughter of Henry Dillon, eleventh viscount Dillon; in 1767 she married Sir William
Jerningham, sixth baronet. She was the sister-in-law of the poet Edward Jerningham
Mary Anne Morgan [née Brent] (1828 fl.)
The wife of John James Morgan (d. 1820) whom she married 15 December 1800; her sister
Charlotte lived with the family.
