Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to John Bates Dibdin, [5 September 1827]
[p.m. September 5, 1827.]
DEAR Dib,—Emma Isola, who is
with us, has opened an ALBUM: bring some verses with you
for it on Saty evening. Any fun will do. I am teaching
her Latin; you may make something of that. Don’t be modest. For in it you
shall appear,
if I rummage out some of
your old pleasant letters for rhymes. But an original is better.
Has your pa1 any scrap?
We shall be MOST glad to see
your sister or sisters with you. Can’t you
contrive it? Write in that case.
1 the infantile word for father.
John Bates Dibdin (1798-1828)
The son of Charles Isaac Mungo Dibdin; he worked as a clerk in a mercantile concern,
edited the
European Magazine for a time, and corresponded with
Charles Lamb.
Emma Lamb Moxon [née Isola] (1809-1891)
The orphaned daughter of Charles Isola adopted by Charles and Mary Lamb; after working as
a governess she married Edward Moxon in 1833.