Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to George Dyer, [January? 1829]
[No date. ? January, 1829.]
DEAR Dyer, My
very good friend, and Charles
Clarke’s father in law, Vincent Novello, wishes to shake hands with you. Make him play
you a tune. He is a damn’d fine musician, and what is better, a good man
and true. He will tell you how glad we should be to have Mrs. Dyer and you here for a few days. Our
young friend, Miss Isola, has been here
holydaymaking, but leaves us tomorrow.
Yours Ever
Ch. Lamb.
Enfield.
[Added in a feminine hand:]
Emma’s love to Mr. and Mrs.
Dyer.
Charles Cowden Clarke (1787-1877)
The schoolmate and friend of John Keats; he lectured on Shakespeare and European
literature and published
Recollections of Writers (1878).
George Dyer (1755-1841)
English poet, antiquary, and friend of Charles Lamb; author of
Poems
and Critical Essays (1802),
Poetics: or a Series of Poems and
Disquisitions on Poetry, 2 vols (1812),
History of the
University and Colleges of Cambridge, 2 vols (1814) and other works.
Honour Mather Dyer (1761-1861)
In 1824 she married the poet and scholar George Dyer as her fourth husband.
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.
Vincent Novello (1781-1861)
English music publisher and friend of Charles Lamb, Leigh Hunt, and Percy Bysshe
Shelley.
