Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Thomas Allsop, [December 1827]
[No date. ? Middle Dec., 1827.]
MY dear Allsop—Thanks for the Birds. Your announcement puzzles me sadly
as nothing came. I send you back a word in your letter, which I can positively
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return to you as useless. It means to
refer to the birds, but gives me no information. They are at the fire, however.
My sister’s
illness is the most obstinate she ever had. It will not go away, and I am
afraid Miss James will not be able to
stay above a day or two longer. I am desperate to think of it sometimes.
’Tis eleven weeks!
The day is sad as my prospects.
With kindest love to Mrs.
A. and the children,
No Atlas this week. Poor Hone’s good boy Alfred has fractured his skull, another son is returned
“dead” from the Navy office, & his Book is going to be given up, not having
answered. What a world of troubles this is!
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.
Alfred Hone (1810-1883)
The son of the bookseller William Hone; he worked as an architectural sculptor.
William Hone (1780-1842)
English bookseller, radical, and antiquary; he was an associate of Bentham, Mill, and
John Cam Hobhouse.
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.
The Atlas. (1826-1869). A weekly literary newspaper with a Benthamite bent edited by Robert Stephen Rintoul.
