DEAR A.—You will be glad to hear that we are at home
to visitors; not too many or noisy. Some fine day shortly Mary will surprise Mrs. Allsop. The weather is not seasonable for formal
engagements.
Yours most ever,
C. Lamb.
Satrd.
Ann Allsop [née Dean] (d. 1877 c.)
The wife of Thomas Allsop, biographer of Coleridge, whom she married in 1824; she was a
society hostess, not the actress Fanny Alsop, daughter of Dorothy Jordan.
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.
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Source Description:
Authors:
Charles Lamb; Mary Lamb
Title:The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905).
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Series: Lord Byron and his Times: http://lordbyron.org
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