Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to William Hone, [April 1824]
DEAR Sir,—Miss
Hazlitt (niece to Pygmalion) begs us to send to you for Mr. Hardy a parcel. I
have not thank’d you for your Pamphlet, but I assure you I approve of it
in all parts, only that I would have seen my Calumniators at hell, before I
would have told them I was a Xtian, tho’ I am one,
I think as much as you. I hope to see you here, some day soon. The parcel is a
novel which I hope Mr. H. may sell for her. I am with
greatest friendliness
Thomas Hardy (1752-1832)
English shoemaker and radical who was tried for treason and acquitted in the 1794
trials.
Mary Hazlitt (d. 1880 c.)
The second daughter of the painter John Hazlitt and his wife Mary; in 1886 W. C. Hazlitt
wrote “she died a few years ago, unmarried.”
William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
English essayist and literary critic; author of
Characters of
Shakespeare's Plays (1817),
Lectures on the English Poets
(1818), and
The Spirit of the Age (1825).
