Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon, [3 January 1833]
BE sure and let me have the Atheneum—or, if they don’t appear, the
Copy back again. I have no other.
I am glad you are introduced to Rickman, cultivate the introduction. I will not forget to write
to him.
I want to see Blackwood, but not without you.
We are yet Emma-less.
And so that is all I can remember.
This is a corkscrew.
[Here is a florid corkscrew.]
C. Lamb, born
1775
flourished about
the year 1832.
C. L. Fecit.—
William Blackwood (1776-1834)
Edinburgh bookseller; he began business 1804 and for a time was John Murray's Scottish
agent. He launched
Blackwood's Magazine in 1817.
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 Rickman (1771-1840)
Educated at Magdalen Hall and Lincoln College, Oxford, he was statistician and clerk to
the House of Commons and an early friend of Charles Lamb and 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).