Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon, [1829?]
CALAMY is
good reading. Mary is always thankful for
Books in her way. I won’t trouble you for any in my way yet, having
enough to read. Young Hazlitt lives, at
least his father does, at 3 or 36 [36 I
have it down, with the 6 scratch’d out] Bouverie Street, Fleet Street. If
not to be found, his mother’s address is, Mrs. Hazlitt, Mrs. Tomlinson’s,
Potters Bar. At one or other he must be heard of. We shall expect you with the
full moon. Meantime, our thanks.
We go on very quietly &c.
Edmund Calamy (1671-1732)
Nonconformist divine whose biographies of ejected ministers were collected and abridged
by Samuel Palmer as
Nonconformist's Memorial (1775).
Sarah Hazlitt [née Stoddart] (1774-1840)
The daughter of John Stoddart (1742-1803), lieutenant in the Royal Navy; she married
William Hazlitt in 1808 and was divorced in 1822.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
English essayist and literary critic; author of
Characters of
Shakespeare's Plays (1817),
Lectures on the English Poets
(1818), and
The Spirit of the Age (1825).
William Hazlitt Jr. (1811-1893)
The son of the critic and father of the bibliographer William Carew Hazlitt; he was
registrar of the London court of bankruptcy and editor of his father's works.
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.
