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Title: The works of Charles and Mary Lamb
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834 Lamb, Mary, 1764-1847 Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938 St. John, Cynthia Morgan, 1852-1919. fmo Wordsworth Collection
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Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam, London, Methuen
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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d ad-ministered. He sung, laughed, whimpered, screamed, babbled ofguardian angels, would get up and go home; but we kept himthere by force ; and by next morning he departed sobered, and seemsto have received no injury. All my friends are open-mouthed abouthaving paling before the river, but I cannot see that, because a. . . lunatic chooses to walk into a river with his eyes open at mid-day, I am any the more likely to be drowned in it, coming homeat midnight. I had the honour of dining at the Mansion House on Thursdaylast, by special card from the Lord Mayor, who never saw my face,nor I his ; and all from being a writer in a magazine! The dinnercostly, served on massy plate, champagne, pines, &c.; forty-sevenpresent, among whom the Chairman and two other directors of theIndia Company. Theres for you! and got away pretty sober!Quite saved my credit! ^^^^— We continue to like our house prodigiously. Does Mary Hazlittgo on with her novel, or has she begun another ? I would not dis-
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LAMBS HOUSE IN COLEBROOKE ROW, ISLINGTON,AS IT IS TO-DAY (1905) THE NEW RIVER NOW RUNS UNDERGROUND TO THE RIGHT OF THE RAILINGS 1823 RECONCILIATION WITH SOUTHEY 627 courage her, tho we continue to think it (so far) in its present statenot saleable. Our kind remembrances to her and hers and you and yours.— Yours truly, C. Lamb. I am pleased that H. liked my letter to the Laureate. Note (Addressed to Mrs. Hazlitt, Alphington, near Exeter. This letter is the first draft of the Elia essay Amicus Redi-vivus, which was printed in the London Magazine in December,1823. George Dyer, who was then sixty-eight, had been gettingblind steadily for some years. A visit to Lambs cottage to-day(the little end white house in the accompanying picture), bearingin mind that the ribbon of green between iron railings that extendsalong Colebrooke Row was at that time an open stream, will makethe nature of G. D.s misadventure quite plain. Mary Hazlitt—the daughter of John Hazlitt, the essayistsbrother. See

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