Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon, [14 July 1833]
DEAR M. the
Hogarths are delicate. Perhaps it
will amuse Emma to tell her, that, a day
or two since, Miss Norris (Betsy)
call’d to me on the road from London from a gig conveying her to Widford,
and engaged me to come down this afternoon. I think I shall stay only one
night; she would have been glad of E.’s
accompaniment, but I would not disturb her, and Mrs. N. is coming to town on Monday, so it would not have
suited. Also, C. V. Le Grice gave me a
dinner at Johnny Gilpin’s yesterday, where we talk’d of what old
friends were taken or left in the 30 years since we had met.
I shall hope to see her on Tuesdy.
To Bless you both
C. L.
Friday.
William Hogarth (1697-1764)
English satirical painter whose works include
The Harlot's
Progress,
The Rake's Progress, and
Marriage à la Mode.
Charles Valentine Le Grice (1773-1858)
The friend of Lamb and Coleridge at Christ's Hospital where he was Senior Grecian; after
attending Trinity College, Cambridge he became a clergyman in Penzance, 1806-31. He wrote
for the
Gentleman's Magazine and
Critical
Review.
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.
Elizabeth Norris (d. 1843)
Formerly Faint, a widow; she was remarried to Randal Norris, librarian of the Inner
Temple and friend of Charles and Mary Lamb.
