Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Charles Ollier, January 1826
DEAR O.,—We
lamented your absence last night. The grouse were piquant, the backs
incomparable. You must come in to cold mutton and oysters some evening. Name
your evening; though I have qualms at the distance. Do you never leave early?
My head is very queerish, and indisposed for much company; but we will get
Hood, that half Hogarth, to meet you. The scrap I send should
come in After the “Rising with the Lark.”
Colburn, I take it, pays postages.
Henry Colburn (1785-1855)
English publisher who began business about 1806; he co-founded the
New
Monthly Magazine in 1814 and was publisher of the
Literary
Gazette from 1817.
William Hogarth (1697-1764)
English satirical painter whose works include
The Harlot's
Progress,
The Rake's Progress, and
Marriage à la Mode.
Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
English poet and humorist who wrote for the
London Magazine; he
published
Whims and Oddities (1826) and
Hood's
Magazine (1844-5).
Charles Ollier (1788-1859)
London bookseller and novelist who in partnership with his brother James published Keats,
Shelley, Lamb, and Hazlitt; after the firm went bankrupt in 1823 he worked for the
publisher Henry Colburn. He was a sub-editor at the
New Monthly
Magazine.
