Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Vincent Novello, [9 May 1826]
DEAR N. You
will not expect us to-morrow, I am sure, while these damn’d North Easters
continue. We must wait the Zephyrs’ pleasures. By the bye, I was at
Highgate on Wensday, the only one of the Party.
Yours truly
Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual
severity.
Kind remembces to Mrs. Novello &c.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
English poet and philosopher who projected
Lyrical Ballads (1798)
with William Wordsworth; author of
Biographia Literaria (1817),
On the Constitution of the Church and State (1829) and other
works.
Mary Sabilla Novello [née Hehl] (1789-1854)
English author who married Vincent Novello in 1808 and had a family of eleven children,
among them Mary Cowden Clarke.
Vincent Novello (1781-1861)
English music publisher and friend of Charles Lamb, Leigh Hunt, and Percy Bysshe
Shelley.
