Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Charles Wentworth Dilke, [April 1833]
DR Sir, I read your note in a moment of great
perturbation with my Landlady and chuck’d it in the fire, as I should
have done an epistle of Paul, but as far as
my Sister recalls the ![]()
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import of it, I reply. The Sonnets
(36 of them) have never been printed, much less published, till the other
day,1 save that a few of ’em have come out in
Annuals. Two vols., of poetry of M.’s, have been publish’d, but they were not these.
The “Nightingale” has been in one of the those gewgaws, the Annuals;
whether the other I sent you has, or not, penitus ignoro.
But for heaven’s sake do with ’em what you like.
1 The proof sheets only were in my hand about a
fortnight ago.
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.
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.
St Paul (5 c.-67 c.)
Apostle to the Gentiles.
