Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon, 19 March 1828
MY dear M.—It
is my firm determination to have nothing to do with “Forget-me-Nots”—pray excuse me as civilly as
you can to Mr. Hurst. I will take care
to refuse any other applications. The things which Pickering has, if to be had again, I have promised absolutely,
you know, to poor Hood, from whom I had a
melancholy epistle yesterday; besides that, Emma has decided objections to her own and her friend’s
Album verses being published; but if she gets over that, they are decidedly
Hood’s.
Till we meet, farewell. Loves to Dash.
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 Hurst (1770 c.-1842)
Originally a bookseller in Leeds, he began working in London late in the eighteenth
century; in 1804 he partnered with the firm of T. N. Longman. He died in the
Charterhouse.
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.
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.
William Pickering (1796-1854)
London literary publisher who issued the Aldine edition of the English poets (1830) and
published the
Gentleman's Magazine from 1834.
