Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon, [January 1828]
[p.m. (? January, Sunday) 1828.]
DEAR Moxon I
have to thank you for despatching so much business for me. I am uneasy
respecting the enclosed receipts which you sent me and are dated Jan. 1827.
Pray get them chang’d by Mr.
Henshall to 1825. I have been in a very nervous way since I saw
you. Pray excuse me to the Hoods for not
answering his very pleasant letter. I am very poorly. The “Keepsake” I hope is
return’d. I sent it back by Mrs.
Hazlitt on Thursday. ’Twas blotted outside when it came.
The rest I think are mine. My heart bleeds about poor Hone, that such an agreeable ![]()
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book, and a Book there seem’d no reason
should not go on for ever, should be given up, and a thing substituted which in
its Nature cannot last. Don’t send me any more “Companions,” for it only vexes me about
the Table Book. This is not
weather to hope to see any body to day, but without any
particular invitations, pray consider that we are at any
time most glad to see you, You (with Hunt’s “Lord
Byron” or Hazlitt’s “Napoleon “in your hand) or You
simply with your switch &c. The night was damnable and the morning is not
too bless-able. If you get my dates changed, I will not trouble you with
business for some time. Best of all remembces to the
Hoods, with a malicious congratulation on their friend
Rice’s advancemt.
Yours truly
Josiah Henshall (1801 c.-1869)
English engraver, painter and copperplate printer.
William Hone (1780-1842)
English bookseller, radical, and antiquary; he was an associate of Bentham, Mill, and
John Cam Hobhouse.
Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
English poet and humorist who wrote for the
London Magazine; he
published
Whims and Oddities (1826) and
Hood's
Magazine (1844-5).
James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
English poet, journalist, and man of letters; editor of
The
Examiner and
The Liberal; friend of Byron, Keats, and
Shelley.
Edward Moxon (1801-1858)
Poet and bookseller; after employment at Longman and Company he set up in 1830 with
financial assistance from Samuel Rogers and became the leading publisher of literary
poetry.
Edward Rice (1795 c.-1853)
Educated at Christ's Hospital and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was vicar of Horley,
Surrey (1828-53), assistant Master at Christ's Hospital (1818-36), and head master
(1836-53). A friend of Keats and Hood, he died a suicide.
The Keepsake. 30 vols (London: Hurst, Chance and Co., 1828-1857). An illustrated annual edited by William Harrison Ainsworth (1828), Frederic Mansel
Reynolds (1829-35), and Caroline Norton (1836).
