Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to James Gillman, [Spring? 1830]
DEAR Gillman,—Pray do you, or S. T.
C., immediately write to say you have received back the golden
works of the dear, fine, silly old angel, which I part from, bleeding, and to
say how the Winter has used you all.
It is our intention soon, weather permitting, to come over
for a day at Highgate; for beds we will trust to the Gate-House, should you be
full: tell me if we may come casually, for in this change of climate there is
no naming a day for walking. With best loves to Mrs. Gillman, &c.
Yours, mopish, but in health,
I shall be uneasy till I hear of Fuller’s safe arrival.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
English poet and philosopher who projected
Lyrical Ballads (1798)
with William Wordsworth; author of
Biographia Literaria (1817),
On the Constitution of the Church and State (1829) and other
works.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
English divine and biographer whose
Worthies of England was
posthumously published in 1662.
Anne Gillman [née Harding] (1779 c.-1860)
Of Highgate, the daughter of James Harding; in 1807 she married the surgeon James
Gillman, afterwards Coleridge's friend and patron.
James Gillman (1782-1839)
The Highgate surgeon with whom Coleridge lived from 1816 until his death in 1834; in 1838
he published an incomplete
Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
