Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon, [22 December 1827]
MY dear Moxon, I am at length able to tell you that we are all doing well,
and shall be able soon to see our friends as usual. If you will venture a
winter walk to Enfield tomorrow week ![]()
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(Sunday
30th) you will find us much as usual; we intend a delicious quiet Christmas
day, dull and friendless, for we have not spirits for festivities. Pray
communicate the good news to the Hoods,
and say I hope he is better. I should be thankful for any of the books you
mention, but I am so apprehensive of their miscarriage by the stage,—at all
events I want none just now. Pray call and see Mrs.
Lovekin, I heard she was ill; say we shall be glad to see them
some fine day after a week or so.
May I beg you to call upon Miss
James, and say that we are quite well, and that Mary hopes she will excuse her writing herself
yet; she knows that it is rather troublesome to her to write. We have recd her letter. Farewell, till we meet.
Yours truly,
C. Lamb.
Enfield.
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).
Sarah James (1843 fl.)
The daughter of a clergyman of Beguildy in Shropshire, she was a nurse at Mr. Warburton's
mental institution at Hoxton who attended Mary Lamb.
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.
Edward Moxon (1801-1858)
Poet and bookseller; after employment at Longman and Company he set up in 1830 with
financial assistance from Samuel Rogers and became the leading publisher of literary
poetry.
