Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Walter Wilson, August 1832
[Dated at end: Aug., 1832.]
MY dear Wilson, I cannot let my old friend Mrs. Hazlitt (Sister in Law to poor Wm. Hazlitt) leave Enfield, without endeavouring to introduce
her to you, and to Mrs. Wilson. Her daughter has a School
in your neighbourhood, and for her talents and by [for] her merits I can answer. If it lies in your power to be useful to them in
any way, the obligation to your old office-fellow ![]()
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will be great. I have not forgotten Mrs. Wilson’s
Album, and if you, or she, will be the means of procuring but one pupil for
Miss Hazlitt, I will rub up my poor poetic faculty to
the best. But you and she will one day, I hope, bring the Album with you to
Enfield—
Poor Mary is ill, or
would send her love—
Yours very Truly
C. Lamb.
News.—Collet is
dead, Du Puy is dead. I am not.—Hone! is
turned Believer in Irving and his
unknown Tongues.
In the name of dear Defoe which alone might be a Bond of Union between us,
Adieu!
William Collett (1772 c.-1830)
He was an accountant at the East India House and colleague of Charles Lamb.
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
English novelist and miscellaneous writer; author of
Robinson
Crusoe (1719),
Moll Flanders (1722) and
Roxanna (1724).
Peter Solomon Du Puy (1769 c.-1829)
He was a clerk in the East India House with Charles Lamb and also a translator.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
English essayist and literary critic; author of
Characters of
Shakespeare's Plays (1817),
Lectures on the English Poets
(1818), and
The Spirit of the Age (1825).
William Hone (1780-1842)
English bookseller, radical, and antiquary; he was an associate of Bentham, Mill, and
John Cam Hobhouse.
Edward Irving (1792-1834)
Popular Presbyterian preacher in London; he was a friend of Coleridge and author of
The Oracles of God and the Judgement to Come (1823).
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).
