Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon, [December 1828]
DEAR M.,—As I
see no blood-marks on the Green Lanes Road, I conclude you got in safe skins
home. Have you thought of inquiring Miss Wilson’s
change of abode? Of the 2 copies of my drama I want one sent to Wordsworth, together with a complete copy of Hone’s “Table Book,” for which I shall be your
debtor till we meet. Perhaps Longman
will take charge of this parcel. ![]()
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The other is for Coleridge at Mr.
Gilman’s, Grove, Highgate, which may be sent, or, if you
have a curiosity to see him you will make an errand with it to him, & tell
him we mean very soon to come & see him, if the
Gilmans can give or get us a bed. I am ashamed to be
so troublesome. Pray let Hood see the
“Ecclectic
Review”—a rogue! The 2d parts of the Blackwood you may make waste paper of.
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.
James Gillman (1782-1839)
The Highgate surgeon with whom Coleridge lived from 1816 until his death in 1834; in 1838
he published an incomplete
Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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).
Thomas Norton Longman (1771-1842)
A leading London publisher whose authors included Southey, Wordsworth, Scott, and
Moore.
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.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
With Coleridge, author of
Lyrical Ballads (1798), Wordsworth
survived his early unpopularity to succeed Robert Southey as poet laureate in 1843.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. (1817-1980). Begun as the
Edinburgh Monthly Magazine,
Blackwood's assumed the name of its proprietor, William Blackwood after the sixth
number. Blackwood was the nominal editor until 1834.
The Eclectic Review. (1805-1868). Successively edited by Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, and Theophilus Williams
(1814-36), and the poet Josiah Conder (1837-50). It was friendly to evangelical
publications.
