Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Thomas Allsop, [July 1829]
[No date. Late July, 1829.]
MY dear Allsop—I thank you for thinking of my recreation. But I am best
here, I feel I am. I have tried town lately, but came back worse. Here I must
wait till my loneliness has its natural cure. Besides that, though I am not
very sanguine, yet I live in hopes of better news from Fulham, and can not be
out of the way. ’Tis ten weeks to-morrow.—I saw Mary a week since, she was in excellent bodily
health, but otherwise far from well. But a week or so may give a turn. Love to
Mrs. A. and children, and fair
weather accompy you.
Ann Allsop [née Dean] (d. 1877 c.)
The wife of Thomas Allsop, biographer of Coleridge, whom she married in 1824; she was a
society hostess, not the actress Fanny Alsop, daughter of Dorothy Jordan.
Thomas Allsop (1795-1880)
English silk merchant and stockbroker who was the friend and biographer of Coleridge
(1836) and a member of Charles Lamb's circle.
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.
