Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to William Hone, [July 1827]
[No date. Early July, 1827.]
DEAR H., This
is Hood’s, done from the life, of
Mary getting over a style here.
Mary, out of a pleasant revenge, wants you to get it
engrav’d in Table Book to surprise
H., who I know will be amus’d with you so doing.
Append some observations about the awkwardness of country
styles about Edmonton, and the difficulty of elderly Ladies getting over
’em.——
That is to say, if you think the sketch good enough.
I take on myself the warranty.
Can you slip down here some day and go a Green-dragoning?
C. L.
Enfield (Mrs. Leishman’s, Chase).
If you do, send Hood the number, No. 2 Robert St., Adelphi, and keep the
sketch for me.
William Hone (1780-1842)
English bookseller, radical, and antiquary; he was an associate of Bentham, Mill, and
John Cam Hobhouse.
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).
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.
