Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Thomas Allsop, [24 September 1825]
MY dear Allsop—Come not near this unfortunate roof yet a while. My
disease is clearly but slowly going. Field is an excellent attendant. But Mary’s anxieties have overturned her. ![]()
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She has her old
Miss James with her, without whom I
should not feel a support in the world. We keep in separate apartments, and
must weather it. Let me know all of your healths. Kindest love to Mrs. Allsop.
Can you call at Mrs.
Burney 26 James Street, and tell her, & that I can see
no one here in this state. If Martin
return—if well enough, I will meet him some where, don’t let him
come.
Ann Allsop [née Dean] (d. 1877 c.)
The wife of Thomas Allsop, biographer of Coleridge, whom she married in 1824; she was a
society hostess, not the actress Fanny Alsop, daughter of Dorothy Jordan.
Thomas Allsop (1795-1880)
English silk merchant and stockbroker who was the friend and biographer of Coleridge
(1836) and a member of Charles Lamb's circle.
Martin Charles Burney (1788-1852)
The son of Admiral James Burney and nephew of Fanny Burney; he was a lawyer on the
western circuit, and a friend of Leigh Hunt, the Lambs, and Hazlitts.
Rebecca Burney [née Norton] (1799 c.-1868)
A servant who married Martin Burney in 1816; the marriage was kept secret for five years
and ended in a separation about 1830.
Henry Cromwell Field (1785-1840)
The elder brother of Barron Field; he was apothecary and physician to the Charterhouse
and an amateur artist who exhibited at the Royal Academy.
Sarah James (1843 fl.)
The daughter of a clergyman of Beguildy in Shropshire, she was a nurse at Mr. Warburton's
mental institution at Hoxton who attended Mary Lamb.
Mary Anne Lamb (1764-1847)
Sister of Charles Lamb with whom she wrote Tales from Shakespeare (1807). She lived with
her brother, having killed their mother in a temporary fit of insanity.
