Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Index
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INDEX
A
Acrostics, 841, 842, 847.
Aders, Charles, 441, 442. his pictures, 884. Lamb’s poem to, 884.
Adventures of Ulysses, 382, 386, 745.
“After Blenheim,” by Southey, 178.
Agricultural Depression, Lamb on, 863.
Ainsworth, W. H. See Letters. his dedication to Lamb, 566. his gift of Syrinx, 630.
and “Faust,” 631.
Aitken, John. See Letters. his Cabinet, 974.
Albion, Lamb and the, 221, 223.
Albums, Lamb on, 747, 748, 762, 766, 780, 794.
Album Verses, 857, 858.
“Ali Pacha,” by Howard Payne, 578, 579.
Allen, Robert, 1, 4, 19, 37, 53, 301.
Allsop, Thomas. See Letters. 540, 547, 548, 620, 694, 724.
Alsager, T. M., 470, 471, 501, 502.
“Amicus Redivivus,” 626, 627.
“Ancient Mariner, The,” 130, 209, 211.
Anderson, Dr., 184, 186, 187, 188.
“Angel Help,” 729.
Angerstein, John Julius, 346.
Angling, Lamb and, 147, 148.
Animal poetry, 145.
“Anna.” See Simmons.
Annual Anthology, The, 123, 178.
Anti-Jacobin, The, 34, 136, t37.
“Antonio,” by Godwin, 196, 198, 199, 201, 202, 203.
Aquinas, Thomas, 805, 816.
“Ariadne,” by Titian, 912.
Ariel, Lamb as, 398, 844.
Arnold, Samuel James. See Letters. 597. 973.
“Arthur’s Bower,” 290.
Asbury, J. V. See Letters. and Emma Isola, 843. and Lamb as Ariel, 844.
Asses, old poem on, 553, 554.
Astrea, 802.
Australia, Lamb on, 500.
Authors and Publishers, Lamb on, 387.
Ayrton, William. See Letters. 500.
— Mrs. See Letters. 549.
B
Badams, Carlyle’s friend, 796.
— Mrs., nee Louisa Holcroft. See Letters.
Baldwin the publisher, 594.
Ball, Sir Alexander, 302.
“Ballad,” by Lamb, 174.
Bankrupts, Lamb on, 825.
“Barbara S.,” 677, 679, 978.
Barbauld, Mrs., 252, 254.
Barnes, Thomas, 501, 502.
Bartholomew Fair, 242.
Barton, Bernard. See Letters. first mention, 572. his suggested retirement from the
bank, 594, 595, 604, 606. his testimonial, 638. Lamb on his poems, 645. Poetic Vigils,
645. “Sonnet to Elia,” 645. Poems, 4th edition, 688. his Devotional Verses,
698. his Widow’s Tale, 726. extracts from his poems, 728. Lamb sends him a
picture, 730, 731. his stepgrandfather, 746. his New Year’s Eve, 787, 789. sonnet
to Lamb, 789. his “Spiritual Law,” 957. his “Translation of
Enoch,” 959. Lucy, verses to, 654. note to, 664. at Islington, 701.
Baskerville, John, 732.
Battle, Mrs., 346, 986.
Beaumont and Fletcher, 28.
Beaumont, Sir George, 405.
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Bellows Shakespeare, 573, 574.
“Belshazzar’s Feast,” 731, 732.
Benger, Miss, 162,164.
Berkleyans, 83, 86.
Betham, Anne, her legacy, 913, 927.
— Barbara. See Letters.
— Mary Matilda. See Letters. 384, 386, 477, 489, 496, 516, 971.
Bethams, the, their tallness, 448, 890.
Betty, Master, 468, 469.
Bijou, The, 746, 748.
Binding, the perfect, 333.
“Bites,” Lamb’s, 169, 194, 807, 808.
Blake, William, 642, 644. *
Blakesware, 149, 745.
Blanchard, Laman, 785.
Bland, Mrs., 411.
Blank Verse, by Lamb and Lloyd, 113.
Blenheim, its pictures, 416.
Bloomfield, his Farmer’s Boy, 191, 193.
— 621, 623.
Bloxam, Samuel, 712.
Blue-stockings, Lamb among, 162.
Bodleian Library, 485.
Book-binder, Lamb’s poor relation, 399, 736, 758.
Book-borrowing, Lamb on, 544, 545.
“Borderers, The,” by Wordsworth, 184.
Bourne, Vincent, 457, 976.
Bowles, William Lisle, 20, 25, 57. his allegory, “Hope,” 77, 79. his
“Elegiac Stanzas,” 77, 80.
Boyer, James, 442, 988.
Braham, John, 383, 385, 410.
Brawn, Lamb on, 302.
Brighton, the Lambs at, 506.
British Museum, Lamb at, 938.
Brown, Miss, her album verses, 921.
Brutons, the Lambs’ cousins, 522, 523.
Buchan, the Earl of, 967.
Bunch, John, 106, 107.
Bungay, Lamb on, 941.
Bunyan, 779.
Burke and Hare, 797.
Burke, Edmund, 224.
Burnet, Bishop, his Own Times, 157.
Burnett, George, an, 231, 233, 278, 340, 968.
Burney, Captain, 259, 260, 563, 969.
— Martin, 339, 342, 351, 398, 444, 559, 796, 855, 975.
— Sarah, 346, 837.
Burns, Robert, 73, 145, 170, 487, 488.
Burrell, Miss, 5ro, 522.
Burton, Lamb’s imitations of, 159, 160, 161, 173, 174.
Button, Emma, Lamb’s acrostic, 974.
Button Snap, Lamb’s cottage, 454.
Bye, Thomas, 518, 522, 524.
Byron, Lord, 486, 540, 541, 595, 577, 622, 643.
C
Cabinet, The, 974.
Callers, Lamb on, 510.
Calne, the Lambs at, 490.
Cambridge, the Lambs’ visit in 1815, 473.
— Lamb at, in 1820, 973.
Campbell, J. Dykes, 71. on Coleridge in 1806, 360. on Coleridge’s pension,
877. and Coleridge’s “Remorse,” 993.
Capital Punishment, Lamb on, 725.
Carlisle, Sir Antony, 602.
Caroline of Brunswick, 560, 761.
Cary, H. F. See Letters. a model parson, 619. his career, 620. at the Museum, 704.
and Moxon, 851. his Euripides, 874. his translation of Dante, 917. at the Museum, 938.
his verses on Lamb, 943. and Miss Isola’s Latin, 975. a sonnet upon, 982.
Catalani and Coleridge, 429.
Cellini, his autobiography, 257.
Chambers, Charles. See Letters. and Lamb’s praise of fish, 680. his family,
682.
— John. See Letters. 518.
Champion, The, 434, 449.
“Chapel Bell, The,” by Southey, 956.
Chapman’s Homer, 253, 650.
Chatsworth, by Patmore, 737.
Chaucer, Godwin’s Life, 281.
Cheshire cats, 383.
Chessiad, The, 665, 666.
Children’s books, Lamb on, 252.
Childs, Mr. See Letters. 941.
Chimney-sweepers, 989.
China, Manning’s intentions, 223, 224. Lamb on, 384, 480.
Christabel, 163, 274, 488.
“Christian Names of Women,” 900.
Christ’s Hospital, 248, 232, 988.
Christy, Dr., 219.
Clare, John. See Letters. 750.
Clarke, Charles Cowden. See Letters. his career, 559. and Novello, 660.
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Clarke, Charles Cowden, his marriage, 781, 783. his tuft, 803.
— Mary Anne, 396, 397.
— Mary Victoria (nee Novello), 559, 660.
Clarkson, Thomas and Catherine. See Letters. 276, 277, 309, 346, 394, 740.
Claudes, the four, 346.
Coe, Mrs. Elizabeth, 148, 320, 722.
Calebs in Search of a Wife, 401.
Colburn, Henry. See Letters. Lamb on, 870.
— Zerah, 536.
Cold in the head, Lamb on, 633, 704.
Colebrooke Cottage, 618, 619, 701.
Coleridge, Derwent, 250, 599, 992.
— Rev. Edward. See Letters. 712.
— Hartley, 42, 154, 468, 473, 604.
— Henry Nelson, his Six Months in the West Indies, 702.
— Samuel Taylor. See Letters. and religion, 1. in 1796, 3. and Southey, 8, n, 52.
his Poems, 1796, 10, 15, 17, 22, 23. 25. his share of Joan of Arc, 14, 21. alters
Lamb’s sonnets, 18, 24. his letter of consolation, 42. and opium, 56. and the
1797 volume, 68, 70. and John Lamb, jr., 73. his baby song, 75. his Ode on the
Departing Year, 75. as a husbandman, 85. his Joan of Arc verses, 89, 93, 95. and
Rogers, 92, 94. on Lamb, 93. his refusal to write, 99. his “Osorio,” 104,
105. and the Stowey visit, 109. his “Lime-tree Bower,” 109. and
Lamb’s greatcoat, 113. and C. Lloyd, 113. and Lamb’s “Theses Quxdam
Theologies,” 117, 122. the Wedgwood annuity, 117. the quarrel with Lamb and
Lloyd, 119. his letter of remonstrance to Lamb, 120. with Wordsworth in Germany, 135.
136. in Buckingham Street, 150. his articles in the Morning Post, 154.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, with Lamb in 1800, 159. his translation of Schiller, 160.
his books, 171. his affection for the Lambs, 174. his Anthology poems, 178. on
Wordsworth, 213. at Keswick, 243. his Chamounix Hymn, 248, 249. suggests collaboration
with Lamb, 250, 251. on Mary Lamb’s illness, 1803, 269. his Poems, 3rd edition,
270, 273. his Malta plans, 285. at Malta, 297, 302. and the Wordsworths, 309, 310. in
Italy, 338, 341. returns home, 359, 360. and his wife, 359, 361. The Friend, 392, 395,
400, 403. neglects the Lambs, 393. his potations, 421. his difference with Wordsworth,
421. and Catalani, 429. in 1814, 439. his “Remorse,” 439. and the
translation of “Faust,” 440. his Biographia Literaria, 473, his Sibylline
Leaves, 473, 476. a characteristic end, 481. his “Zapolya,” 484, 486. at a
chemist’s, 485. recites “Kubla Khan,” 487. puts himself under
Gillman, 487, 489. at Highgate, 491, 495. attacked by Hazlitt, 491, 492, 493. his
Statesman’s Manual, 493. his lectures, 1818, 508, 509. at Gillman’s, 516,
517, 5i9. on Peter Bell the Third, 520. his “Fancy in Nubibus,” 530. in
Lloyd’s poem, 536, 537. his book-borrowing, 544, 545. and Allsop, 548. his dying
message in 1807, 551. at Monkhouse’s dinner, 606. his Aids to Reflection, 637,
687. and Mrs. Gillman, 658. and Irving, 660, 661, 672, 675. and the Prize Essay, 680.
and Hood’s Odes, 686. on Lamb and Herbert, 699.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, his joke on summer, 704. and the Albums, 781. for St.
Luke’s, 836. on William IV., 858. and the pension, 875, 877. imagines an affront,
885. his death, 936. his Ode on the Departing Year, 947. his tendency to invention,
966. his “Remorse,” 993.
— Sara, 22, 33, 35.
the younger, 599, 603, 691, 693,
740.
Collier, John Dyer. See Letters. 432.
— Mrs. John Dyer. See Letters. 656.
— John Payne. See Letters. 432, 433. 509, 593.
Colonel Jack, 587.
“Common Lot, The,” by Montgomery, 878, 961.
Companion, The, 769, 770.
Condones ad Populum, 2, 19.
“Confessions of a Drunkard,” 627.
Congreve and Voltaire, 383, 385.
Cooke, G. F., 2r9.
Cooper, Samuel, 338, 476.
Cornwall, Barry. See also B. W. Procter. his English Songs, 891. his “King
Death,” 892. his “Epistle to Charles Lamb,” 962.
Cottle, Joseph. See Letters. his “Monody on Henderson,” 16, 21. his
epic, 185. his brother’s death, 189. his Malvern Hills, 257. his Alfred, 257. his
portrait, 532. his Messiah, 532, 533. his Fall of Cambria, 540, 541.
Cotton on “Winter,” 262, 268. on “Old Age,” 265.
Coulson, Walter, 94.
Country, Lamb on the, 242, 244, 827.
Coutts, Mrs., 578.
Covent Garden, Lamb’s love for, 507.
Cowes, the Lambs and Burneys there, 969.
Cowper, William, 9, 12, 15, 21, 31, 37, 38, 93. 95. and Milton, 66. The Royal
George, 266.
Cresswell, Dr., vicar of Edmonton, 903.
Croly, Rev. George, 720.
Cromwell and Napoleon, 253, 254.
Cromwell, Cooper’s portrait of, 474, 476.
Cruelty to animals, John Lamb’s pamphlet, 411.
Cunningham, Allan, 704.
Curse of Kehama, 465.
Curtis, Alderman, 430, 643.
D
Dalston, the Lambs at, 490, 494, 504, 539, 540, 652.
“Dana: Exposed with her Infant,” 995.
Danby, the murder of, 893, 894.
Daniel, George, 194, 620.
— Samuel, 401, 402.
Darley, George, 671, 704, 805, 917.
Dash, Lamb’s dog, 735, 749.
Dawe, George, 324, 367, 406, 407, 504, 505.
“Deathbed, A,” 722.
“Decay of Imagination,” Lamb’s essay on, 881.
Dedications to Lamb, 566.
Defoe, Daniel, 225, 228, 586, 600, 601, 818.
De Quincey, Thomas, 497, 506, 507, 982.
Dermody, Thomas, 72.
Despard, Colonel, 143.
De Stael, Madame, on Germany, 441.
Desultory Thoughts in London, 536.
“Dialogue between a Mother and Child,” 290.
Dibdin, Charles, 647, 665.
— John Bates. See Letters.
his meeting with Lamb, 611.
his death, 811.
“Dick Strype,” 989.
Dilke, Charles Wentworth. See Letters. 884, 926.
“Dissertation on Roast Pig,” 941.
Dobell, Mr. Bertram, 278, 979, 994.
Dodd, Dr., 467, 468.
Dodwell, H., Lamb’s letters to, 490, 759.
“Don Giovanni,” 497.
“Douglas,” by Home, 65.
Dowden, Mrs. See Mrs. John Lamb.
Dramatic Specimens, 373, 374, 378, 382, 390, 400.
Drink, Lamb on, 245, 398, 450, 632, 844, 938, 940.
Druitt, Mary, 241, 267, 268.
Duddon Sonnets, 541.
Duncan, Miss, 429.
Dupuy, P. S., his translation, 29, 32.
Dyer, George. See Letters. and Horne Tooke, 33. his poetry, 134. his twin volumes,
175. his many “veins,” 179.
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Dyer, George, his critical preface, 181. and the epic, 184, 186. on Shakespeare,
185. his phrenesis, 206. his fallacy, 208. his Poems, 208, 215. his hunger-madness,
230. as the hero of a novel, 232. his disappearance, 298. and Lord Stanhope, 502. on
other people’s poetry, 519. his immersion, 626. his novel way with dead books,
663. his marriage, 692. and Novello, 793. and Rogers, 866, 867. his Unitarian tract,
881. his blindness, 914. his “Poetic Sympathies,” 951. and the Earl of
Buchan, 967. his autobiography, 967. and Earl Stanhope, 973. and Emma Isola’s
album, 978.
— Mrs. George. See Letters. 692, 914.
“Dying Lover, The,” 131.
E
Earl of Abergavenny, 300.
East India House, 33, 463, 470, 478, 509, 513, 518, 523, 563, 572, 586, 588, 594,
602, 656, 657, 672, 673.
Edinburgh Review and Wordsworth, 493.
Edmonton, the Lambs’ home there, 910, 911.
Edmund Oliver, n9.
“Edward, Edward,” 966.
Elia, death of the original, 558.
“Elia, Sonnet to,” 645.
Elia, dedication of, 585. the American second series, 877. Last Essays of, 896,
897,898, 900, 901.
Elton, Sir C. A., 650, 685.
Enfield, Lamb at, 733. Lamb settles there, 752. Lamb’s house there, 761. and
neighbourhood, 791.
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 532, 533.
English Songs, by Procter, 891.
Englishman’s Magazine, 878, 881.
“Enviable,” Lamb on, 172, 202.
Epic poetry and George Dyer, 184, 186.
“Epitaph on Ensign Peacock,” 965.
“— on Mary Druitt,” 241.
“ _ on the Rigg Children,” 861.
Epitaphs, Lamb on, 417. Wordsworth on, 417, 418.
Evans, William, 19, 25, 532, 533, 748.
Examiner, The, references to Miss Kelly, 528, 529.
and Lamb’s Album Verses, 860, 992, 993.
Excursion, the, 434, 436, 443, 445.
Exeter Change, 217, 534.
F
“Fable for Twelfth Day,” 980.
Fairfax’s Tasso, 90, 93, 9i7.
Falstaff’s Letters, 2, 37, 53, 54, 60, 157.
“Fancy in Nubibus,” 530.
“Farewell to Tobacco,” 317, 320, 99o.
Farmer, Priscilla, Lloyd’s grandmother, 68, 70.
“Faulkener,” Godwin’s play, 225, 228, 369. 375.
Fauntleroy, the forger, 656, 663, 665.
“Faust,” by Goethe, 440, 441, 631.
Fawcetts, the two, 330, 331.
Fell, Lamb’s friend, 235, 238, 330, 332.
Fenelon, 207, 208.
Fenwick, John, 221, 245, 276, 330, 332, 500.
Field, Barron. See Letters. 502, 542, 647, 657, 660, 805.
— Mary, Lamb’s grandmother, 27, 31, 48.
Fireworks, Lamb on, 436.
First-fruits of Australian Poetry, 542, 543, 806,
FitzGerald, Edward, his “Meadows in Spring,” 878, 879, 960. his memoir
of Barton, 639.
— Mrs., at Islington, 701.
Fleet Prison, 332.
Fletcher, John, Lamb on, 708.
Ford, John, 295, 298.
Fornham, 841.
Forster, John. See Letters. 886, 927.
Fox, George, his Journal, 588, 589, 598, 602, 612.
Franklin, Marmaduke, 476, 659.
Fraser’s Magazine, 865.
“Free Thoughts on Some Eminent Composers,” 855, 856.
Frenchmen, Lamb on, 234, 240.
Frend, William, 132.
Friend, The, 392, 395, 400.
Fryer, Miss. See Letters.
Lamb’s song for, 930.
Fuller, Thomas. 843.
G
Gardener, Lamb as a, 619.
Garrick Extracts, 717.
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Gebir, by Landor, 149, 648.
Geese, Lamb on, 975.
Gem, The, 780, 785.
“Gentle Giantess, The,” 547.
“Gentle-hearted Charles,” 172, 177.
George III., 495.
Ghoul, the, 239.
Gifford, William, 452, 453, 492, 515, 516.
Gigliucci, Countess. See Novello, Clara.
Gillman, James. See Letters. and Coleridge, 489.
— Rev. James. See Letters. 909.
Gilray, his caricature of Coleridge and Co., 137.
Goddard House School, Lamb at, 722.
Godiva, Lady, and John Martin, 788.
Godwin, William. See Letters. and Allen, 19, 37. first meeting, 157. and Coleridge,
164, 183. in Ireland, 171. and Mary Lamb’s appetite, 196. his
“Antonio,” 196, 198, 199, 201, 202, 203. his pride, 203. his Persian play,
207. his “Faulkener,” 225, 228, 367, 369. his dulness, 259. his Chaucer,
281. his taste, 283. and Hazlitt, 331. Lamb’s apology to, 371. and the Tales from
Shakespear, 372. his shop, 381, 385. and the Adventures of Ulysses, 386. his letter of
criticism to Lamb, 387. on sepulchres, 392, 397. and Mrs. Godwin, 410. his
“tomb,” 481. his disrespect, 565. his difficulties, 566, 567, 578, 580.
— Mrs. See Letters. 235, 238, 245, 372, 397, 410, 424, 504, 966, 972.
Goethe, Lamb on, 631.
Gould, Mrs. See Miss Burrell.
“Grandame, The,” 27, 30, 68.
“Grandpapa,” the, by J. Howard Payne, 597.
“Grand State Bed,” by Lamb, 980.
Gray’s Latin ode, 979.
Great Russell Street, Lamb’s home in, 506, 508.
Grecians, Lamb on, 869.
Greg, Mr., Lamb’s tenant, 454.
Gregory, Dr., 163.
Grenville, Lord, and Coleridge, 154.
Gum-boil and Tooth-ache, 316.
Gutch, John Mathew, 167, 169, 414.
Gwynn, Mr. Stephen, his translations of Lamb’s Latin letters, 802, 871, 874.
“Gypsy’s Malison, The,” 796, 799.
H
Hancock, his drawing of Lamb, 316.
Handwriting, Lamb on, 869.
Harley, J. P., 689.
“Harmony in Unlikeness,” 992.
Harrow Church, Lamb in, 435.
Hastings, the Lambs at, 615, 616. Hood at, 647, 649. Lamb on, 648. Dibdin at, 707.
Haydon, B. R. See Letters. his career, 509. and Godwin’s difficulties, 578,
580. subjects for pictures, 725. his “Chairing the Member,” 778. his party,
954.
Hayes, Mary, and Charles Lloyd, 155, 156, 966.
Hayward, A., his Faust, 904.
Hazlitt, John, 337.
— Mrs. John, 297, 887.
— Mary, 626, 641, 642.
— Sarah. See Sarah Stoddart.
— Rev. W. See Letters. 381.
— William. See Letters. on Lamb, 220. his portrait of Lamb, 298. his first meeting
with Lamb, 325. and Ned Search, 326, 329, 331, 336. the misogynist, 355. and Lamb
scolded, 358. woos Sarah Stoddart, 374. his love affair, 376. the joke of his death,
377. plans for his wedding, 379. his wedding, 390. missed in London, 391. his Grammar,
410, 411. and the Political Register, 425. his son born, 430. his post on the
Chronicle, 432. misunderstanding with Lamb, 443. his review of the Excursion, 445. his
Lake Country “’scapes,” 450, 451. on Coleridge, 491. his
conversation, 491.
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Hazlitt, William, his borrowings from Lamb, 492. knocked down by John Lamb, 493. his
lectures in 1818, 512, 514. his “Conversation of Authors,” 543. on
Lamb’s Letter to Southey, 627. on bodily pain, 640. on Shelley, 652. on Lamb,
669, 670. his Spirit of the Age, 669, 670. his second marriage, 737. in Paris, 744. his
portrait of Lamb, 763, 764. on Defoe and Lamb, 819. his losses, 825, 826. his death,
861, 880.
— jr. See Letters.
431, 810, 812, 856, 880.
“Helen Repentant too Late,” 183.
Hell-fire Dick, 473.
Hemans, Mrs., 797.
Henderson, Cottle’s Monody on, 15, 21.
Henshaw, William, Lamb’s godfather, 421, 568, 569.
Herbert, George, Lamb on, 699.
Hesiod, Lamb on, 650.
“Hester,” 261.
Hetty, the Lambs’ servant, 166.
Hicks’ Hall, 456.
Higginbottom Sonnets, 119, 120.
Hill, Thomas. See Letters. 710.
Hissing, Lamb on, 382, 385.
Holcroft, Fanny, 584, 685.
— Harwood, 590.
— Louisa, 505, 798.
— Thomas, 246, 259, 337, 338, 365, 368, 381, 396, 407, 427, 971.
— Mrs. Thomas. See Mrs. Kenney. 970.
— Tom. See Letters. 5°5. 53
Hollingdon Rural Church, 616, 648, 708, 709.
Hollingshead, Mr. John, 589.
Holmes, Edward, 660, 661, 770.
Homer, Lamb on, 402, 413, 650.
Hone, Alfred, 764, 765.
— Matilda, 744.
— William. See Letters. first letter to, 614. Every-Day Book, 678, 689, 695.
Lamb’s lines to, 689. and the Garrick plays, 759. the Table Book stops, 768. and
his difficulties, 847, 850. and the Times, 857.
Hood, Thomas. See Letters.
Hood, Thomas, his Odes and Addresses, 685, 686. Lamb on, 696, 698. his “Very
Deaf Indeed,” 705, 706. his still-born child, 726. frames picture with Lamb, 730.
his picture of Mary Lamb, 733, 734. and Dash, 750. his Plea of the Midsummer Fairies,
754. his genius, 780, 781. his parody of Lamb, 785, 786. his “Progress of
Cant,” 983.
Hoole, John, 90, 93.
Hopkins, Dick, the swearing scullion, 302.
Howell, James, his Familiar Letters quoted, 123.
Hudibras quoted, 666.
Hugo, Victor, and Lamb, 197.
Hume, Joseph, M.P., 564. See Letters. 377.
— the Misses, 883.
Humphreys, Miss. See Letters.
Hunt, John, 635, 636.
— Leigh. See Letters. on Lamb’s books, 405. and the Lambs, 489. a lost letter
to, 497. his need of friends, 558. in Italy, 573, 661. and freethinking, 617. his
handwriting, 629. his Lord Byron, 769, 773. his Companion, 769, 770. and Lamb’s
Album Verses, 860, 992. and Lamb’s Satan, 874, 876.
— Thornton, 489, 617, 662.
Hurst & Robinson’s failure, 697.
Hyde Park, the jubilation in 1814, 435.
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Imagination, Lamb on, 213.
Imlay, Fanny, 324, 326.
Incendiarism at Enfield, 863.
India, Lamb on, 941.
Inner Temple Lane, 396, 400, 404.
“Innocence,” Lamb’s sonnet, 7, 20, 25.
Irving, Edward, and Coleridge, 660, 661, 672, 675. his watch chain, 742. with
Coleridge at St. Luke’s, 836. his squint, 837.
Isle of Wight, the Lambs in, 277.
Isola, Emma, 550.
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Isola, Emma, her Latin, 739, 740, 751, 975. 992. to become a governess, 742. her
reading of Milton, 744. her album, 750, 794, 796, 977. her engagement at Fornham, 777,
778. her illness, 832. and her physic, 843. and her watch, 915. her marriage, 916. a
sonnet to, 922. her appearance, 929.
— Harriet, 778.
Italian, the Lambs read, 917.
J
James, Sarah. See Letters. 589, 615.
Jameson, R. S., Hartley Coleridge’s sonnets, 604, 975.
“Janus Weathercock,” 613, 618. See also Wainewright, T. G., 6i9.
Jekyll, Joseph, 914.
Jerdan, William, and Lamb, 859, 860.
Joan of Arc, 1, 13, 21, 26, 121. and Coleridge, 89, 93, 95.
John Bull and Rogers, 865.
John Buncle, 106, 107.
John-Dory, Lamb on, 680.
John Woodvil, 131, 132, 139, 140, 141, 143, 150, 152, 192, 205, 214, 239.
Johnson, Dr., 462, 464.
“— Samuel, the Whig,” 979.
Joshua, Martin’s picture, 731, 732.
K
“Kais,” the opera, 383.
Keats, John, at Haydon’s, 954.
Kelly, Fanny H., 582, 583, 590, 591.
—. Maria. See Letters. her divine plain face, 510, 513. Lamb’s proposal to
her, 522. Lamb’s sonnet to, 528. her letter to Lamb, 529. and “Barbara
S.,” 677, 978. at the Strand Theatre, 903. Lamb on her absence, 981.
Kenney family, 583.
— Mrs. James. See Letters.
— Louisa (afterwards Mrs. Badams). See Letters.
— Sophy, Lamb’s wife, 571.
Keymer, Mr., his album, 937.
Kew Palace, the Lambs at, 495.
“King Death,” by Barry Cornwall, 892.
King and Queen of Hearts, The, 334, 335.
“Kirkstone Pass,” 541.
Kitchener, Doctor, 732.
Knight, Anne, 688, 717.
Knowles, J. S., 393, 905, 910.
Kosciusko, Thaddeus, 106.
“Kubla Khan,” 487, 488.
L
“Lady Blanche,” verses by Mary Lamb, 290.
Lakes, the Lambs among the, 242, 243.
Lamb family in 1796, 3.
Charles, new prose and verse possibly by. See Appendix III. his temporary madness,
2, 27. his love sonnets, 6. on Priestley, 10. and Coleridge in 1794, 16, 22. on his
sonnets, 18. on old plays, 28. on Hope and Fear, 33. and the Bristol holiday, 35. on
the tragedy of Sept. 22, 1796, 41, 43. on his sister’s virtues, 46, 78, 311, 928.
his salary, 47. on his love, 55. his share of Coleridge’s Poems, 1797. 55. 57. on
simplicity, 56. on Bowles, 57. and his mother, 59. on Coleridge’s 2nd edition,
60, 61, 62. his “Tomb of Douglas,” 65. on Cowper and Milton, 66. on Burns,
73. his second sonnet to his sister, 78. on his share of the I797 Poems, 81. he exhorts
Coleridge to attempt an epic, 82. on friendship, 83. his first poem to Lloyd, 87. on a
subject for Coleridge, 91. on Cowper, 93. on Quakerism, 97. his “Vision of
Repentance,” 101, 104. on the 1797 Poems, 104. at Stowey, 108. leaves Little
Queen Street, 110. at Southey’s, 110. his lines on his mother’s death, in.
his second poem to C. Lloyd, 112. and Lloyd and White, 115. his sarcastic propositions
for Coleridge, 117, 122.
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Lamb, Charles, the quarrel with Coleridge, 119. on Wither and Quarles, 124, 129. on
Rosamund Gray, 125. on Southey’s “Eclogues,” 125,128, 129, 143. on
Marlowe, 126. on the “Ancient Mariner,” 130. and his tailor, 135. his
appeal for a poor friend, 137, 139. on his mind, 144. on poems on dumb creatures, 145.
on Blakesware, 149. on alcoholic beverages, 150. and mathematics, 152. on Lloyd and
Mary Hayes, 155. on Bishop Burnet, 157. on Falstaff’s Letters, 157. among the
Blue-stockings, 162. as a linguist, 165. on Hetty’s death, 166. on Lake society,
168. on narrow means, 168. on Oxford, 168, 170. his joke against Gutch, 169. on the
“Gentle Charles,” 172. the use of the final “e,” 173. by
punch-light, 175. as a consoler, 189. and the snakes, 190. his praise of London, 194,
210, 216, 235, 507. he takes in Manning, 194. and Godwin’s supper, 196. his
Epilogue for “Antonio,” 198, 199. on the failure of “Antonio,”
203. on his Cambridge plans, 207. on the Lyrical Ballads, 208, 212. his move to Mitre
Court Buildings, 216, 217. on his religious state in 1801, 220. his dramatic
suggestions, 225, 227, 228. on Napoleon, 240. his spare figure, 241. at the Lakes, 242,
243. his project for collaborating with Coleridge, 250, 251. on children’s books,
252. on Napoleon and Cromwell, 253. on Chapman’s Homer, 253. on Milton’s
prose, 255. on Cellini, 257. on Independent Tartary, 258. on Coleridge’s Poems,
3rd edition, 270, 273. his 1803 holiday, 277.
Lamb, Charles, his difficulties as a reviewer, 281. ceases to be a journalist, 285,
286, 288. his miserliness, 292. on old books, 295. his motto, 295, 298. his portrait by
Hazlitt, 298. on John Wordsworth’s death, 299, 308. on brawn, 302. on his sister,
311. his portrait by Hancock, 316. on pictures, 324, 336, 346. on Nelson, 324. his
namesake, 329. in unsettled state, 1806, 342, 344. on Manning’s departure for
China, 348. on “Mr. H.,” 353, 366, 369. and Hazlitt scolded, 358.
reconciled to Godwin, 371. and Hazlitt’s “death,” 377. his difference
with Godwin, 387. at Hazlitt’s wedding, 390. and the Sheridans, 391, 393. on
moving, 396. on critics, 400. on the choice of a wife, 401. criticises Mr.
Lloyd’s Homer, 402. visits Hazlitt, 403. his books, 405. on titles of honour,
408. a list of friends, 410, 411. on Wither, 413, 414. on epitaphs, 417. his
aquavorousness, 421, 422. a servant difficulty, 423. and Hazlitt’s Chronicle
appointment, 432. on the Excursion, 434. and The Champion, 434. blown up by Hazlitt,
443. his new book room, 447. on the India House shackles, 470, 478. 503. 513, 518, 523,
524, 563. 586, 588, 594. and Gifford, 452. a landed proprietor, 454. on
Wordsworth’s 1815 poems, 456, 460, 463. on Vincent Bourne, 457. his office work,
1815, 458. on presents, 469, 471. his diffidence as a critic, 477. on his
sister’s illnesses, 479. his lies to Manning, 481. on Coleridge and Wordsworth,
487.
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Lamb, Charles, on Christabel, 488. his borrowed good things, 492. on Australia, 500.
on distant correspondents, 501, 502. as matter-of-lie man, 502. his Hogarths, 506. on
the plague of friends, 510. his after-dinner speeches, 512, 514. on Peter Bell, 521. on
Mackery End, 522, 523. on The Waggoner, 524. on two inks, 524. his proposal to Miss
Kelly, 527. on William Wordsworth, jr., 534. on other C. L.s, 537, 538. on Lord Byron,
540. on book-borrowing, 544, 545. and Leigh Hunt, 558. and his aunt’s cake, 561.
in praise of pig, 561, 581, 592, 625. on death, 562. his efforts for Godwin, 567. his
directions for seeing Paris, 569. and his child-wife, 571. on India House, 572. on
Shelley, 576. on Godwin’s case, 578, 580. and Scott, 580. on Moore, 584. on
Defoe, 586. his epigram on Wadd, 587. on George Fox, 589. as Elia, 591. on the
advantages of routine, 594. on publishers, 594. his propensity to lie, 598. on Fox,
598, 602. on Quakers, 598, 602, 605. on India House, 602. in Parnassus, 605, 606. his
after-dinner speeches, 610. on Fox, 612. and Pope’s portrait, 617. on Colebrooke
Cottage, 618. makes his will, 620. at the Mansion House, 626. on Physiology, 629. on
Marlowe and Goethe, 631. his cold, 633. not a good man, 637. on monetary gifts, 638.
and Thackeray, 665. Hazlitt on, 669, 670. resignation, 672, 673.
Lamb, Charles, his release, 673, 674, 676, 677, 679. his pension, 674, 676. on fish,
680. ill, 684. on magazine payment, 684. on puns, 685. on Hood’s Odes, 685, 687.
on Signor Velluti, 686. on the death of children, 688, 689. lines to Hone, 689. his
last London article, 690. on Hood, 696, 698. on booksellers’ breaking, 697, 825.
on Quarles and Herbert, 699. on stationery, 700. on Manning, 702, 703. on a cold, 704.
on Brook Pulham’s etching, 706. on Hastings, 707, 712. on Fletcher’s plays,
708. on publishers, 713. his autobiography, 714. on Sunday, 715. his savings, 718. on
Randal Norris, 721. at Goddard House School, 722. and Mrs. Norris’s pension, 723,
724. his criticism of Patmore’s Chatsworth, 737. his difficulties with the drama,
739. on memorials, 740. on Albums, 747-748, 762, 766, 780, 794. on mad dogs, 749. his
house at Enfield, 752, 756. and Mathew’s picture, 757. his epigram on the Edward
crosses, 761, 762. portraits of him, 763. on the Pilgrim’s Progress, 779. his
serenata for Cowden Clarke’s marriage, 783. his favourite walk, 791. his
namesake, 792. will write for antiquity, 796. his “Gipsy’s Malison,”
796, 799. his sonnet on Daniel Rogers, 804. on Thomas Aquinas, 805, 816. on the
Laureates, 806. his joke upon Robinson, 807, 808. in London in 1829, 813. and Mary
Lamb’s absence, 814. and the burden of leisure, 814. moves to the Westwoods, 817.
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Lamb, Charles, on Defoe, 818. on Thomas Westwood, 822, 828. on bankrupts, 825. on
town and country, 827, 832. asked to collect his Specimens, 838. the journey from
Fornham, 840. his turnip joke, 840, 854. his skill at acrostics, 842. on an escapade,
844. and Merchant Taylors’ boys, 848. and the Hone subscription, 850. on music,
852, 854. on Martin Burney, 855. visits London in 1830, 858. on his critics, 858. and
his will, 862. on incendiarism, 863. on Dyer’s blindness, 868. on Christ’s
Hospital days, 869. on Coleridge’s pension, 875. on Montgomery’s
“Common Lot,” 878. on FitzGerald’s “Meadows in Spring,”
878. and the Englishman’s Magazine, 878. on Unitarians, 881. on his
unsaleability, 883. on Coleridge’s imagined affront, 885. on “Rose
Aylmer,” 889. his pensioners, 89i. his advice on speculation, 893. spurious
letter of, 893. mistaken for a murderer, 894. his sonnet on women’s names, 900.
and the Elia lawsuit, 901. injury to his leg, 904. on John Taylor, 904. leaves Enfield
for Edmonton, 909, 911. on the Last Essays of Elia, 912. his gift of Milton to
Wordsworth, 912. at Widford, 914. his coffin nails, 914. on Emma Isola’s
marriage, 916, 918. reads the Inferno, 917. his London holiday, 921. his request for
books, 926. on Mr. Fuller Russell’s poetry, 933, 934. on Coleridge’s death,
936, 937. on his excesses at Cary’s, 938. his jokes on widows, 940. at
Haydon’s, 954. his name child, 957. Procter’s “Epistle” to,
962.
Lamb, Charles, his epitaph on Ensign Peacock, 965. his adventure at sea, 969. on
painter-authors, 971. on Cary, 975. on milestones, 976. his account of the Lord
Mayor’s bed, 980. his fable for Twelfth Day, 980. his earliest poem, 988. and
Coleridge’s “Remorse,” 993. an epigram, 995.
Elizabeth, her death, 41. and John Lamb, jr., 48. and her daughter, 48. and her
sister-in-law, 279.
John, his querulousness, 61. his death, 148. the younger, his accident, 15. and the
tragedy, 46, 61. on Coleridge, 73. his pamphlet, 411, 412. his portrait of Milton, 457,
462, 701. knocks down Hazlitt, 493. death of, 560.
Mrs. John. See Letters. 569, 794.
Mary. See Letters. her frenzy, 41. and her mother, 48. her recovery, 48, 61.
dedication to, 57. Lamb’s second sonnet to, 78. removed from confinement, 100.
her 1798 relapse, 114. invited to Stowey, 115.her first poem, 183. her appetite, 196.
taken ill, 269. on her brother, 275. on secrecy, 278. on her mother and her aunt, 279.
two poems, 290. on John Wordsworth’s death, 308. two other poems by, 312. her
calligraphy, 316, 608. projecting literary work, 338. on marriage, 352, 426. plans for
new books, 356. on Coleridge in 1806, 359. her silk dress, 384, 389, 390, 481, 483. on
presents, 389. on Coleridge, 394. her water cure, 420, 422. on marriage, 426. appeals
for Miss Fricker, 432. her letter to a child, 446. discovers a room, 447. her article
on Needlework, 452.
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Lamb, Mary, her first joke, 462. on the Cambridge excursion, 473. on roadside
churches. 475. at the window, 506, 507. on the death of a child, 538. ill in France,
569. as a smuggler, 571. her illness, 694. drawn by Hood, 733, 734. her sonnet to Emma
Isola, 740, 758. her 1827 illness, 756, 761, 762, 763, 764. 765. her 1829 illness,
811-816. her verses on her brother, 856. moved to Edmonton, 886. and Emma Isola’s
marriage, 916. Lamb’s praise of, 928. her death, 943. on Mrs. Norris’s
death, 944.
Sarah (Aunt Hetty), 3, 45. and the rich relative, 67. her death, 91. her funeral,
97. and her sister-in-law, 279.
Landon, Letitia E., 748.
Landor, Walter Savage. See Letters. his Julian, 466. his Imaginary Conversations,
692, 693. and Elia, 924. his visit to Lamb, 889. his verses for Emma Isola, 890. his
“Rose Aylmer,” 890. his verses on Lamb, 890.
Last Essays of Elia, 896, 897, 898, 900, 901.
Latin letters by Lamb, 246, 801, 871, 873, 975.
Laureates, Lamb on the, 806.
Lay of Marie, The, 477.
Legal joke, a, 794.
Le Grice, C. V., 1, 4, 8, 914.
Samuel, 45, 47, 147, 148, 252.
Leishman, Mrs., 733.
Leonardo da Vinci, 290, 324, 326.
“Leonora,” by Burger, 38.
Letters in verse, 497, 7I0.
“Letter to an Old Gentleman,” 604, 982.
“Lewti,” by Coleridge, 172,178.
Lies, 481, 502, 598, 736.
“Lime-tree Bower,” Coleridge’s poem, 177, 180.
Lincolnshire and the Lambs, 410.
Liston, John, 428, 667.
Literary Gazette, The, 859, 992.
“Living without God in the World,” 134.
Livingston, Mr, Luther S., 412.
Lloyd, Charles, the elder, described by Robert Lloyd, 271.
Lloyd, Charles, the elder, Lamb’s letters to, 402, 413, 431.
the younger. See Letters. his career to 1796, 51. his sonnets on “Priscilla
Farmer,” 68, 70. Lamb’s lines to, 87. on Lamb, 88. his illness, 99, 103.
and Coleridge, 100. at Southey’s, 110. and Sophia Pemberton, 110, 111.
Lamb’s lines on, 112. a quarrel averted, 115. the quarrel with Coleridge, 119.
letter to Cottle, 121. and The Anti-Jacobin, 137. and Mary Hayes, 155, 966. his
first-born, 175. an “American,” 248. described by Robert Lloyd, 271. a lost
letter to, 432. his illness in 1815, 480. his Desultory Thoughts in London, 536. his
Poems, 1823, 613, 623, 624. in London in i8ig, 973.
— Olivia, 155, 159, 966.
— Priscilla, 142, 161, 294, 480.
— Robert, Lamb’s first letter to, 121. with Lamb, 139. advice from his sister,
142. advice from Lamb, 148, 149. in London, 1800, 161. Lamb’s letters to, 168,
175, 212, 218, 219, 225, 294, 395, 403, 407. on his father, 271. his marriage, 284. in
London, 395. his death, 407.
— Sophia, 175.
Lockhart, J. G., 555.
Lofft Capel, 470, 471.
Logan quoted, 29.
London, Lamb’s praise of, 194, 210, 216, 235. 244. 507.
“London Fogs,” 979.
London Magazine, The, 555, 556,558, 604, 613, 618, 663, 669, 684, 690.
London Tavern dinner, 512, 514.
“Londoner, The,” by Lamb, 235, 239.
Lonsdale, Lord, 968.
Lord Chief Justice, Lamb on, 635.
Lord Mayor of London and Leviathan, 142.
Lord Mayor, his bed, 980.
Lottery puffs, 406. tickets, 325, 326.
“Love will Come,” by Lamb, 930.
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Love sonnets, Lamb’s, 6.
Lovell, Robert, 9.
Luther in the Warteburg, 403.
Lyrical Ballads, 130, 131, 208-211, 212-214.
M
Mackery End, Lamb on, 522, 523.
Mackintosh, Sir James, Lamb’s epigram, 221, 223.
Macready and Lamb, 320.
Magazines, Lamb on, 646.
Man, Henry, his epigram, 667.
“Man of Ross,” 274.
Manning, Thomas. See Letters. his career to 1799, 151. his grimaces, 152. his
letters to Lamb, 153, 160, 194, 206, 217, 260, 349. unpublished letters from Lamb, 168.
his grimaces, 175. first news of China, 223. in Paris, 233. and Napoleon, 238, 368. his
Chinese project, 258. he leaves for China, 348, 349. Thibet and China, 482. his return
to England, 504, 505. on Wordsworth, 525. and Fanny Holcroft, 584. at the Lambs, 641.
Lamb on, 702. his last days, 931.
Mansion House, Lamb at, 626.
Marlowe, Christopher, 126, 631.
Marriage, Lamb on, 401. Mary Lamb on, 352, 426.
Marshall, Godwin’s friend, 202, 245.
Marter, William. See Letters. 646.
Martin, John, 731, 732, 788, 789.
— Louisa, 323, 793, 931.
Marvell quoted, 260.
Mary of Buttermere, 275, 276.
Maseres, Baron, 218.
Massinger, Philip, 28, 31, 58.
Mathematics and Lamb, 152.
Mathews, Charles, his picture, 757.
— Mrs. Charles, and the Lambs, 552.
Mathias’ Pursuits of Literature, 52.
“Matter-of-lie man,” Lamb as, 481, 502.
May, John, 137, 139, 693.
— William, 1, 3.
“Meadows in Spring,” by FitzGerald, 878, 906.
Mellish, Mr., 497, 500.
Mellon, Harriet, 578.
Merchant Taylors’ epigrams, 282, 848,851.
Meyer, Henry, “The Young Catechist,” 727, 729. his portrait of Lamb,
763.
Milestones, Lamb on, 976.
“Mille viae Mortis,” 988.
Milton, John, and Cowper, 66. his Defence, 255, 256. John Lamb’s portrait,
457, 462, 701. Lamb’s gift to Wordsworth, 912.
Mitchell, Thomas, 502.
Mitford, Rev. John, 599, 600, 604, 606, 662, 717, 719.
— Mary Russell, 673, 786.
Monkhouse, Thomas, 546, 605, 671, 678.
“Monody on Chatterton,” 12, 17, 27.
Montagu, Basil. See Letters. 343, 355, 416, 421, 726.
— Mrs. Basil. See Letters.
Montgomery, James, and chimney-sweepers, 643, 644. his “Common Lot,”
878, 961.
Moore, Thomas, and Lamb, 584, 606.
Morgan, John, 439, 441, 487, 490, 504, 533. 891.
— Mrs. John, 473, 506.
Morning Chronicle, 432.
Morning Post, 154, I59, 160, 239, 250, 251, 285, 288, 967, 968, 980, 989, 992.
Moving, Lamb on, 396, 753.
Moxon, Edward. See Letters. first mention, 712. his career to 1826, 714.
Lamb’s first letter to, 714. his early poems, 714. his Christmas, 718, 805. his
Nightingale sonnet, 852. and Rogers, 852. his Reflector, 893, 894. small commissions
for Lamb, 895, 896. and Murray, 897. his proposal to Miss Isola, 904. his Oak sonnet,
906. his marriage, 9i6, 9i8. his sonnets, 920, 922.
“Mr. H.,” 337, 340, 353, 355, 356, 369,
370, 381, 382, 994.
Mrs. Leicester’s School, 402, 635.
— Leslie and Her Grandchildren, 761.
Murray, John, 492, 838, 897.
Music. Lamb on, 852, 854.
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Napoleon, 468, 471, 484.
— and Manning, 238, 240, 368.
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Napoleon and Cromwell, 253, 254. his height, 241.
Nayler, James, 603.
Necessarianism, 83.
Nelson, his death, 324.
New Monthly Magazine, 684, 696, 697, 713.
New River, Lamb on, 647, 753.
“New Year’s Eve,” 546, 624.
New Year’s Eve, A, by Barton, 787, 789.
Newington, 540.
“Newspapers,” Lamb’s essay on, 221.
Norris, Miss Jane. See Letters.
— Randal, 421, 720.
— Mrs. Randal. See Letters. 615, 723, 944.
— Richard, 834.
“Northern Castigation, The,” 212.
Nott, Dr. John, 414.
Novello, Clara (Countess Gigliucci), 932.
— Vincent. See Letters. 66o, 661, 770, 782, 793.
— Mrs. Vincent. See Letters. 525. 527. 538.
Novellos, the, 668, 712.
O
Ode on the Departing Year, 75, 80, 84, 947.
“Ode to the Treadmill,” 810.
Odes and Addresses, by Hood and Reynolds, 685, 686.
Office work, Lamb on, 656, 657.
“Old Actors, The,” 564, 565.
“Old Familiar Faces, The,” 116.
Oilier, C. and J. See Letters. 514,515.
“On an Infant Dying as soon as Born,” 726.
“On Seeing Mrs. K B ,” etc., 996.
“Osorio,” Coleridge’s drama, 104, 105.
Oxford, Lamb at, 170.
“Oxford in the Vacation,” 974.
P
Paice, Joseph, 831.
Palmerston, Lord, 565.
Pantisocracy, 11.
Pardo, Father, 467.
Paris, Lamb on, 569, 573, 575.
— Mrs., 546, 547, 777.
Park, Judge, 633, 634.
Parr, Dr., and Lamb, 320.
Parsons, Mrs., 589.
Pasta, Madame, 770.
Patmore, Coventry, 750.
— P. G. See Letters. John Scott’s second, 555. a nonsense letter to, 735. his
Chatsworth, 737. his imitation of Lamb, 758. seeking a publisher, 774.
Paul, C. Kegan, and the “Theses,” 119.
“Pawnbroker’s Daughter, The,” 371, 689, 692, 701.
Payne, John Howard. See Letters. 576, 578, 581.
Peacock, Ensign, 965.
Pemberton, Sophia, III.
Penn, William, his No Cross, No Crown, 97.
Persian ambassador, 409.
Peter Bell, by Wordsworth, 462, 521.
Peter Bell the Third, 518, 520.
“Peter’s Net,” 878.
Philip Quarll, 600, 601.
Phillips, Colonel, 399.
— Ned, 399, 420, 425, 440, 837, 972.
— Sir Richard, 123, 231.
Phillips’s Theatrum Poetarum, 942.
Physiology, Lamb on, 629.
Pictures, Lamb on, 324, 336, 346.
Pig, Lamb’s praise of, 561, 581, 592, 625, 655, 941.
Pilgrim’s Progress, 779, 780.
Pindar, Peter, 462, 464.
“Pipos.” See Derwent Coleridge, 250.
“Pizarro,” Sheridan’s play, 161.
Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, 754.
Plumer family, 31.
Plura, a mysterious woman, 590.
Poems, possibly by Lamb, 987, 989, 992, 995, 996.
“Poetic Sympathies,” by George Dyer, 951.
Poetry for Children, 400, 401, 408, 761, 862, 914.
Poets’ dinner party, 605, 606.
“Poet’s Epitaph,” by Wordsworth, 209, 211, 304.
Political Decameron, The, 553.
Pompey, Lamb’s dog, 550.
Poole, John, 576, 590, 591.
— Thomas. See Letters. 108.
“Poor Susan, Reverie of,” 461, 463.
Pope, Alexander, 487, 600, 601, 607.
“Popular Fallacies,” 696, 697.
Postage rates in 1797, 94.
Presentation copies, Lamb on, 520.
Presents, Lamb on, 469, 471.
“Pride’s Cure.” See John Woodvil.
Priestley, Joseph, 10, 13, 78, 83, 86.
Procter, B. W. See Letters. See also Barry Cornwall.
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Procter, B. W., in 1823, 608. and Lamb’s will, 620. his marriage, 656. and
Pulham’s etching, 707.
— Mrs., and Lamb, 940.
“Progress of Cant,” 983.
Prometheus Unbound story, 652, 653.
Pry, Tom, 710.
Publishers, Lamb on, 387, 594, 713.
Pulham, Brook, his etching of Lamb, 706, 707, 748.
Pun at Salisbury, 409.
Puns, Lamb on, 685.
Purchas, His Pilgrimage, 290.
Pye, Henry James, 806.
Q
Quakers, 97, 571, 588, 598, 602, 605.
Quarles, Lamb on, 124, 129, 699.
Quarterly Review, Lamb’s review for, 443. 445, 450, 452. and Lamb, 616, 617,
627, 628.
Quillinan, Edward, 610.
R
Recreations in Agriculture, etc., 187.
Reflector, The, Moxon’s paper, 893, 894.
Reform Bill, 873.
Rejected Addresses, 793.
Rejected Articles, 958.
“Religion of Actors,” 699, 701.
“Religious Musings,” 1, 8, 9, 22, 90, 93, 97.
Rembrandt, 731.
“Remorse,” by Coleridge, 439, 440.
Reynolds, John Hamilton, 520, 686.
— Mrs., Lamb’s schoolmistress, 39, 40, 834, 891.
Rheumatism, Lamb on, 807, 808.
“Richard II.,” Lamb’s epilogue to, 644.
Richmond, the Lambs at, 296.
Rickman, John. See Letters. 191, 193, 224, 229, 323, 559, 966-969, 973-975.
Rigg children, Lamb’s verses on, 861.
Rimini, Leigh Hunt’s poem, 497.
“Road to Ruin, The,” 365, 369.
Robinson Crusoe, 587.
Robinson, Anthony, 757.
— Mrs. Anthony, 772.
— Henry Crabb. See Letters. he meets Lamb, 388. Lamb on, 438. and “Peter
Bell,” 521. his admiration of Wordsworth, 526.
Robinson, Henry Crabb, his presents to Lamb, 526. at Monkhouse’s dinner, 606.
his present to Mary Lamb, 803. his rheumatism, 807, 808.
— Thomas. See Letters. 581.
Roderick, by Southey, 465, 466.
Rogers, Daniel, Lamb’s sonnet on, 804, 811, 812.
— Samuel. See Letters. and Wordsworth’s “Force of Prayer,” 519,
521. and Coleridge, 92, 94. at Monkhouse’s dinner, 606. his letter to Lamb, 811,
812. and Moxon, 852, 857. his Italy, 860. and John Bull, 865. and G. Dyer, 866, 867.
Lamb’s sonnet to, 923, 924.
Romilly, Sir Samuel, 462, 464, 726.
Rosamund Gray, 124, 125, 796.
“Rose Aylmer,” by Landor, 890.
Roxana, 587, 600, 601, 819.
Rumford, Count, 992.
Russell, J. Fuller. See Letters. and Satan in Search of a Wife, 903. his poem
criticised, 933, 935.
Ryle, Charles 862.
S
Sadler’s Wells, 275.
“Saint Charles,” 665.
“St. Crispin to Mr. Gifford,” 516.
St. Luke’s Hospital, 836.
St. Paul’s admission fee, 987.
Salisbury, Lamb’s pun at, 409.
Salt-water soap, 345.
Salutation and Cat, 3, 16, 29, 61.
Sapphics, 995.
Sargus, Mr. See Letters.
Lamb’s tenant, 454.
Satan in Search of a Wife, 862, 874, 876, 881, 897, 903.
Savage, Richard, 225, 227, 600, 601.
Savory, Hester, 195, 261.
Scott, John. See Letters. 434. 555.
— Sir Walter. See Letters. 580, 603, 604.
Sentiment, Lamb on, 413.
Settle, Elkanah, 467, 468.
Shakespeare, George Dyer on, 185. the Bellows portrait, 573, 574. and Elia, 591. his
illustrations, 923.
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Shakespeare’s Characters, 979.
“She dwelt among the untrodden ways,” 214.
Sheep-stealing, Lamb’s sonnet, 798.
Shelley, P. B., 573. death of, 576. Lamb on, 652, 653. Hazlitt on, 652. “Lines
to a Reviewer,” 653.
— Mrs. P. B. See Letters. 739.
Sheridan and Lamb, 391, 393.
Simmons, Ann, 2, 5, 6, 55.
Simonds, the ghoul, 239, 967.
Six Months in the West Indies, 702.
Skiddaw, Lamb on, 244.
Smith, Charlotte, 355.
— Mrs., 546.
“Smoker’s Song, The,” 99i.
Smoking, Lamb on, 269, 317, 320.
Snakes, Lamb visits, i9o.
“Soldier’s Daughter, The,” by J. Howard Payne, 582.
Sonnet to Elia, 571.
— on “Work,” 646.
“Sonnet to a Nameless Friend,” 789.
Southampton Buildings, 396.
Southey, Edith, 691. sonnet to, 900.
— Dr., 438, 629.
— Robert, his Joan of Arc, 1, 13, 21, 26. in 1796, 3. and Cowper, 15, 21. his
dactyls, 32, 34. and Coleridge, 52. his Madoc, 53. entertains Lamb and Lloyd, 110. his
Joan of Arc, 121. and the “Sonnet to Simplicity,” 119, 120. his
“Eclogues,” 125, 128, 129,143. on “The Ancient Mariner,” 130,
131. his Poems, 2nd edition, 1799, 143, 145. his description of Manning, 175. in
Dublin, 233. on the perfect household, 276. his Curse of Kehama, 465. his Roderick,
465, 466. death of his son, 490. the lapidary style, 498, 500. his fortune, 595. his
criticism of Elia, 616, 617. Lamb’s Letter to, 616, 617, 627. his reply to Lamb,
627, 628. his Tale of Paraguay, 691. his “Vesper Bell,” 691, 956. his Book
of the Church, 691. his Life of Bunyan, 847.
Southey, Robert, and Hone, 847, 849. his defence of Lamb, 858, 859. his
“Chapel Bell,” 956.
Spenser, Edmund, and Mr. Spencer, 334, 335. his sonnet to Harvey, 335, 336.
“Spider, To a,” by Southey, 147.
Spirit of the Age, The, 669, 670.
“Spiritual Law,” by Barton, 957.
Stamps, Comptroller of, 954.
Stationery, Lamb on, 700.
Stoddart, John. See Letters. 19, 165, 217, 275, 277, 315, 355, 379. 520.
— Lady. See Letters. 768.
— Sarah (afterwards Sarah Hazlitt). See Letters. her love affairs, 278, 280, 291,
339, 343. 352, 362, 374. 376. her mother’s illness, 312, 322. plans for her
wedding, 379. her wedding, 390.
Stothard, Thomas, Lamb’s lines to, 923, 925.
Stowey, Lamb at, 108.
Stuart, Daniel, on Lamb, 288.
Sunday, Lamb on, 715.
“Superannuated Man,” 675, 679.
“Supersedeas,” by Wither, 124, 950.
“Suum Cuique,” by Lamb, 848, 851.
Swift, Dean, 600, 601.
Swinburne, A. C., and Lamb and Hugo, 197. on Lamb s dramatic suggestions, 227. on
“A True Story,” 979.
Sydney, Sir Philip, and Lamb, 942.
Sylvia, by George Darley, 805.
T
Table Book, Lamb’s fable, 760.
Tailors, Lamb on, 449, 451, 797.
Tales from Shakespear, 348, 351, 352, 354, 358, 372.
Talfourd, Thomas Noon. See Letters. 469, 471, 526, 620, 792. made a Serjeant, 898.
his “Verses in Memory of a Child,” 957.
Talma and Lamb, 573, 574.
“Tartar Drum,” Lamb’s version, 929.
Tartary, Lamb on, 258.
Toiler, The, and Jerdan, 860.
Tayler, C. B., 635, 773.
Taylor, Jeremy, 218, 225.
— John. See Letters. editor of the London Magazine, 556.
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Taylor, John, and the Elia lawsuit, 900, 904.
Temple finally left, 506.
Thackeray and Lamb, 665.
Thanksgiving Ode, by Wordsworth, 484, 485.
Thekla’s song in “Wallenstem, 966.
Thelwall, John, 93, 109.
“Theses Quaedam Theologicae,” 117, 122.
Thievery in Australia, 500.
Thurlow, Lord, 457, 788, 790.
Thurtell the murderer, 634.
Titian, Mary Lamb’s verses, 312.
— the Music Piece, 346.
Titles of honour, Lamb on, 408.
“To a Bird that Haunted the Waters of Lacken,” 790.
“To Emma Learning Latin and Desponding,” 740, 992.
“To a Friend on his Marriage,” 918.
“To the Poet Cowper,” 37.
“To Sara and her Samuel,” 35, 37, 39.
“To my Sister,” sonnet, 2.
“To a Young Lady going out to India,” 64.
Tobin, James Webbe, 284, 353.
— John, 201.
“Tomb of Douglas, The,” 65.
“Tombs in the Abbey, The,” 987.
“Tooth-ache and Gum-boil,” 321.
Towers, Mrs., Lamb’s sonnet to, 771.
Town and country, Lamb on, 827, 832.
“Translation of Enoch,” by Barton, g59.
Travels, Lamb on, 465, 467.
Trelawney, E. J., 577.
Trimmer, Mrs., 252, 254.
“True Story, A,” 979.
Tunbridge Wells, the Lambs at, 614.
Turbot, Lamb on, 681.
Turnips and legs of mutton, 840, 854.
Tuthill, Sir George, 365, 368, 455, 836.
Twelfth Day, 980.
Twiss, Horace, 683.
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Unitarianism, 881.
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Velluti, Signor, 685, 687.
“Vindictive Man, The,” 365, 369.
Virgin and Child, Mary Lamb’s verses, 312.
“Vision of Horns, 667.
“Vision of Judgment,” by Byron, 577, 635. 636, 705.
“Vision of Repentance, A,” 101, 104.
Voltaire and Congreve, 383, 385.
Voltaire and Wordsworth, 444. Lamb on, 954.
W
Wadd, Lamb’s colleague, 586, 587.
Waggoner, The, 524.
“Wagstaff, Mr. Ephraim,” 984.
Wainewright, T. G., 613, 618, 619. See also “Janus Weathercock.”
Waltham Cross, letter on, 986.
Walton, Isaak, 20, 52, 212, 929.
Warner’s Syrinx, 630, 631.
Watch, Emma Isola’s, 915.
Watchman, The, 8,12.
Webster, his “Vittoria Corombona,” 325.
Wednesdays, Lamb’s evening, 428.
Wesley, Miss, 162, 164.
Wesmacott, C. M., 989.
Westwood, Thomas, 822, 828, 908.
— Cottage, 817, 824.
Whist, 837.
“White Devil, The,” 325.
White Doe of Rylstone, 525.
White, Edward, 576, 740.
— James, 5, 115.
Widford, 722.
“Widow, The,” 777, 785, 796.
Widow’s Tale, The, by Barton, 726, 728.
Widows, a list of, 940.
“Wife, The,” by Sheridan Knowles, 886, 905, 910.
“Wife’s Trial, The,” by Lamb, 735, 738, 739. 747, 748, 787.
Wilde, Serjeant, 856.
William IV., 858.
Williams, Mrs. See Letters. and Emma Isola, 778. and the acrostics, 841, 842, 847.
Wilson, John, his biography, 893.
Wilson, Walter. See Letters. and Lamb’s apology, 219. Lamb’s fellow
clerk, 220. visits Lamb, 776. his Life of Defoe, 810, 820.
Windham, William, 154, 155, 412.
Winterslow, 342, 398. the Lambs at, 403, 404, 405, 415.
“Witch, The,” by Lamb, 132, 134, 135.
Wither, George, and Quarles, 124, 129. Lamb on, 413, 414. his
“Supersedeas,” 950.
Woolman, John, 9i, 94, 645, 929.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. See Letters.
at Stowey, 108. a letter from, 310. her poems, 458.
— William. See Letters. at Stowey, 108. and Coleridge in Germany, 135, 136.
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Wordsworth, William, his economy, 173-
Lyrical Ballads, 2nd edition, 208, 212. and Lamb’s letters, 212. at
Bartholomew Fair, 242. his marriage, 248, 249. his £8 worth of books, 295. and
Shakespeare, 384. his difference with Coleridge, 421. The Excursion, 434. and Voltaire,
444, 445. his Poems, 1815 edition, 456, 458, 463, 560. his illegible hand, 485. on
Burns, 487, 488. and Peter Bell the Third, 519. The Waggoner, 524, 526. his Duddon
sonnets, 541. at Monkhouse’s dinner, 606. in London, 641.
Wordsworth, William, his Milton, a gift from Lamb, 912. at Haydon’s, 954.
— John, his death, 299, 310.
— William, jr., 534.
“Work,” Lamb’s sonnet, 572.
Works, Lamb’s, 514, 515.
Worsley, Lady Frances, 608.
Wortley, Lady Mary, 607, 608.
Wroughton, Richard, his letter about “Mr. H.,” 353.
Y
“Yarrow Visited,” 557.
“Yew Trees,” Wordsworth’s poem, 459.
“Young Catechist, The,” 727.
Z
“Zapolya,” 484, 486.
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