Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Marianne Ayrton, 23 January 1821
[Dated at end: Jan. 23, 1821.]
DEAR Mrs.
Ayrton, my sister desires me, as being a more expert penman than
herself, to say that she saw Mrs. Paris
yesterday, and that she is very much out of spirits, and has expressed a great
wish to see your son William, and
Fanny——
I like to write that word Fanny. I do
not know but it was one reason of taking upon me this pleasing task——
Moreover that if the said William and Frances will go and sit an
hour with her at any time, she will engage that no one else shall see them but
herself, and the servant who opens the door, she being confined to her private
room. I trust you and the Juveniles will comply with this reasonable request.
& am
Dear Mrs. Ayrton
yours and yours’
Truly
C. Lamb.
Cov. Gar.
23 Jan. 1821.
Marianne Ayrton [née Arnold] (d. 1836)
The eldest daughter of the composer Samuel Arnold; in 1803 she married the impresario
William Ayrton. She was the sister of the theater manager Samuel James Arnold.
William Scrope Ayrton (1804-1885)
The son of the musical impresario William Ayrton; a bankruptcy commissioner, he married
Margaret Alsager (1826-1898) and with Basil Montague edited
The
Harmonicon (1823-33).
Elizabeth Paris [née Ayrton] (1762 c.-1847)
The eldest daughter of the composer Edmund Ayrton; she married Thomas Paris and was the
mother of the physician John Ayrton Paris.
