Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon, [September? 1826]
[No date. ? Sept., 1826.]
I HAVE had much trouble to find Field to-day. No matter. He was packing up for
out of town. He has writ a handsomest letter, which you will transmit to
Murry with your proofsheets. Seal
it.—
Mrs. Hood will drink tea with us on
Thursday at ½ past 5 at Latest.
N.B. I have lost my Museum reading today: a day with
Titus: owing to your dam’d bisness.—I
am the last to reproach anybody. I scorn it.
If you shall have the whole book ready soon, it will be
best for Murry to see.
Barron Field (1786-1846)
English barrister and friend of Leigh Hunt, Thomas Hood, and Charles Lamb.
Jane Hood [née Reynolds] (1792-1846)
The daughter of George Reynolds of Christ's Hospital and sister of John Hamilton
Reynolds; in 1825 she married the poet Thomas Hood.
John Murray II (1778-1843)
The second John Murray began the
Quarterly Review in 1809 and
published works by Scott, Byron, Austen, Crabbe, and other literary notables.