Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon, [30 March 1833]
DR M.
Emma and we are delighted with the
Sonnets, and she with her nice Walton.
Mary is deep in the novel. Come as
early as you can. I stupidly overlookd your proposal to meet you in Green
Lanes, for in some strange way I burnt my leg,
shin-quarter, at Forster’s;* it is
laid up on a stool, and Asbury attends. You’ll see us all as usual, about
Taylor, when you come.
* Or the night I came home, for I felt it not bad till
yesterday. But I scarce can hobble across the room.
I have secured 4 places for night: in haste.
Mary and E. do not dream of any thing we have discussed.
John Forster (1812-1876)
English man of letters and friend of Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt who was editor of
The Examiner (1847-55) and the biographer of Goldsmith (1854),
Landor (1869), and Dickens (1872-74).
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.
Edward Moxon (1801-1858)
Poet and bookseller; after employment at Longman and Company he set up in 1830 with
financial assistance from Samuel Rogers and became the leading publisher of literary
poetry.
Emma Lamb Moxon [née Isola] (1809-1891)
The orphaned daughter of Charles Isola adopted by Charles and Mary Lamb; after working as
a governess she married Edward Moxon in 1833.
John Taylor (1781-1864)
Publisher of the
London Magazine and poems of John Keats, and a
prolific writer in his own right.
Izaak Walton (1593-1683)
The friend and biographer of John Donne, and author of
The Compleat
Angler (1653).
