Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to William Hone, 21 May 1830
DEAR Hone—I
thought you would be pleased to see this letter. Pray if you have time to, call
on Novello, No. 66, Great Queen St. I am
anxious to learn whether he received his album I sent on Friday by our nine
o’clock morning stage. If not, beg him inquire at the Old Bell, Holborn.
Southey will see in the Times all we
proposed omitting is omitted.
William Hone (1780-1842)
English bookseller, radical, and antiquary; he was an associate of Bentham, Mill, and
John Cam Hobhouse.
Vincent Novello (1781-1861)
English music publisher and friend of Charles Lamb, Leigh Hunt, and Percy Bysshe
Shelley.
Robert Southey (1774-1843)
Poet laureate and man of letters whose contemporary reputation depended upon his prose
works, among them the
Life of Nelson, 2 vols (1813),
History of the Peninsular War, 3 vols (1823-32) and
The Doctor, 7 vols (1834-47).
The Times. (1785-). Founded by John Walter, The Times was edited by Thomas Barnes from 1817 to 1841. In the
romantic era it published much less literary material than its rival dailies, the
Morning Chronicle and the
Morning
Post.
