Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Mary Lamb to Jane Payne Collier, [Autumn 1812]
DEAR Mrs.
C.—This note will be given to you by a young friend of mine, whom I wish you would employ: she has
commenced business as a mantua-maker, and, if you and my girls would try her, I
think she could fit you all three, and it will be doing her an essential
service. She is, I think, very deserving, and if you procure work for her among
your friends and acquaintances, so much the better. My best love to you and my
girls. We are both well.
Yours affectionately,
Mary Lamb.
Jane Collier [née Payne] (1768-1833)
The daughter of a London sugar refiner, in 1786 she married John Dyer Collier; she was
the mother of the antiquary John Payne Collier.
Martha Fricker (1777-1850)
The daughter of Stephen Fricker and sister-in-law of Coleridge and Southey; she worked as
a mantua-maker in London and died unmarried.
