Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Walter Wilson, 28 May 1829
DEAR W.,—Introduce this, or omit it, as you like. I think I wrote better
about it in a letter to you from India H. If you have that, perhaps out of the
two I could patch up a better thing, if you’d return both. But I am very
poorly, and have been harassed with an illness of my sister’s.
The Ode
was printed in the “New Times” nearly the end of 1825, and I have only
omitted some silly lines. Call it a corrected copy.
Put my name to either or both, as you like.
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.
Walter Wilson (1781-1847)
The illegitimate son of John Walter, founder of the
Times; he was
a London bookseller and collector who published a three-volume life of Defoe (1830).
The New Times. (1817-1828). Daily London newspaper established as a conservative alternative to the
Times; it was edited by Sir John Stoddart (1817-1826) and Eugenius Roche
(1827-1828).
