Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Henry Robertson to Mary Lamb, 8 February 1823
MY dear Miss
Lamb—I have enclosed for you Mr. Payne’s piece called
Grandpapa, which I regret to say is not thought to be of
the nature that will suit this theatre; but as there appears to be
much merit in it, Mr. Kemble
strongly recommends that you should send it to the English Opera
House, for which it seems to be excellently adapted. As you have
already been kind enough to be our medium of communication with
Mr. Payne, I have imposed this trouble
upon you; but if you do not like to act for Mr.
Payne in the business, and have no means of
disposing of the piece, I will forward it to Paris or elsewhere as
you thins he may prefer.
Very truly yours,
Henry Robertson.
T. R. C. G., 8 Feb. 1823.
Charles Kemble (1775-1854)
English comic actor, the younger brother of John Philip Kemble and Sarah Siddons.
Mary Anne Lamb (1764-1847)
Sister of Charles Lamb with whom she wrote Tales from Shakespeare (1807). She lived with
her brother, having killed their mother in a temporary fit of insanity.
John Howard Payne (1791-1852)
American dramatist and friend of Washington Irving who worked in England and France from
1813 to 1832; he was author of
Brutus, or, the Fall of Tarquin: an
Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts (1818).
