Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Honour Dyer, 22 December 1834
DEAR Mrs.
Dyer,—I am very uneasy about a Book which I either have lost or left
at your house on Thursday. It was the book I went out to fetch from Miss Buffam’s, while the tripe was
frying. It is called Phillip’s Theatrum Poetarum; but it is an English
book. I think I left it in the parlour. It is Mr.
Cary’s book, and I would not lose it for the world. Pray,
if you find it, book it at the Swan, Snow Hill, by an Edmonton stage
immediately, directed to Mr. Lamb,
Church-street, Edmonton, or write to say you cannot find it. I am quite anxious
about it. If it is lost, I shall never like tripe again.
With kindest love to Mr.
Dyer and all,
Emily Buffam (1834 fl.)
The Buffam sisters, friends of Charles Lamb, let rooms at 34 Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane. An Emily Buffam is listed, with Lamb, as a contributor to James White's
Falstaff's Letters (1796).
Henry Francis Cary (1772-1844)
English poet; he was assistant-keeper of printed books at the British Museum (1826) and
translator of Dante (1805-19).
George Dyer (1755-1841)
English poet, antiquary, and friend of Charles Lamb; author of
Poems
and Critical Essays (1802),
Poetics: or a Series of Poems and
Disquisitions on Poetry, 2 vols (1812),
History of the
University and Colleges of Cambridge, 2 vols (1814) and other works.
Honour Mather Dyer (1761-1861)
In 1824 she married the poet and scholar George Dyer as her fourth husband.
Charles Lamb [Elia] (1775-1834)
English essayist and boyhood friend of Coleridge at Christ's Hospital; author of
Essays of Elia published in the
London
Magazine (collected 1823, 1833) and other works.
Edward Phillips (1630-1696 c.)
Miscellaneous writer, nephew and pupil of John Milton; author of
Theatrum Poetarum (1675) and memoir of his uncle prefaced to
Letters of State (1694).
