Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to James Gillman, 2 May 1821
[Dated at end: 2 May, 1821.]
DEAR Sir—You dine so late on Friday, it will be
impossible for us to go home by the eight o’clock stage. Will you oblige
us by securing us beds at some house from which a stage goes to the Bank in the
morning? I would write to Coleridge, but
cannot think of troubling a dying man with such a request.
If the beds in the town are all engaged, in consequence
of Mr. Mathews’s appearance, a
hackney-coach will serve.
We shall neither of us come much before the time.
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.
Charles Mathews (1776-1835)
Comic actor at the Haymarket and Covent Garden theaters; from 1818 he gave a series of
performances under the title of
Mr. Mathews at Home.
