Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon, [August 1831]
[No date. Early August, 1831.]
DEAR M.—The R.A. here memorised was George Dawe, whom I knew well and heard many
anecdotes of, from Daniels and Westall, at H. Rogers’s—to each of
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a Mag.
in my name. It will fly like wild fire among the R. Academicians and artists.
Could you get hold of Proctor—his
chambers are in Lincoln’s Inn at Montagu’s—or of Janus
Weathercock?—both of their prose is
capital. Don’t encourage poetry. The Peter’s
Net does not intend funny things only. All is fish. And leave out
the sickening Elia at the end. Then it may comprise
letters and characters addrest to Peter—but a signature
forces it to be all characteristic of the one man Elia, or
the one man Peter, which cramped me formerly. I have
agreed not for my sister to know the subjects I chuse
till the Mag. comes out; so beware of speaking of ’em, or writing about
’em, save generally. Be particular about this warning. Can’t you
drop in some afternoon, and take a bed?
The Athenæum has been hoaxed with some exquisite poetry that
was 2 or 3 months ago in Hone’s Book. I like your 1st
No. capitally. But is it not small? Come and see us, week day if
possible.
George Daniel (1789-1864)
English stockbroker, poet, satirist, and book collector; he published
The Modern Dunciad (1814).
George Dawe (1781-1829)
Educated at the Royal Academy Schools, he was an engraver and portrait-painter elected to
the Royal Academy in 1814.
William Hone (1780-1842)
English bookseller, radical, and antiquary; he was an associate of Bentham, Mill, and
John Cam Hobhouse.
Basil Montagu (1770-1851)
An illegitimate son of the fourth earl of Sandwich, he was educated at Charterhouse and
Christ's College, Cambridge, and afterwards was a lawyer, editor, and friend of Samuel
Romilly, William Godwin, and William Wordsworth.
Bryan Waller Procter [Barry Cornwall] (1787-1874)
English poet; a contemporary of Byron at Harrow, and friend of Leigh Hunt and Charles
Lamb. He was the author of several volumes of poem and
Mirandola, a
tragedy (1821).
Henry Rogers (1774-1832)
Son of Thomas Rogers (1735-93) and youngest brother of the poet Thomas Rogers; he was the
head of the family bank, Rogers, Towgood, and Co. until 1824, and a friend of Charles
Lamb.
Thomas Griffiths Wainewright [Janus Weathercock] (1794-1847)
The grandson of Ralph Griffiths of the
Monthly Review; he was a
dandy, a painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy, essayist for the
London Magazine, and criminal transported to Australia for forgery. He is thought
to have murdered several persons.
William Westall (1781-1850)
Topographical painter and engraver; he was the younger brother of the painter Richard
Westall and a friend of Robert Southey.
The Athenaeum. London Literary and Critical
Journal. (1828-1921). The
Athenaeum was founded by James Silk Buckingham; editors
included Frederick Denison Maurice (July 1828-May 1829) John Sterling (May 1829-June 1830),
Charles Wentworth Dilke (June 1830-1846), and Thomas Kibble Hervey (1846-1853).
The Englishman. (1803-1834). A London weekly newspaper; the proprietor was William I. Clement (1821-34).
