Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Marianne Ayrton, [16 April 1833]
DEAR Mrs.
Ayrton, I do not know which to admire most, your kindness, or
your patience, in copying out that intolerable rabble of panegryc from over the
Atlantic. By the way, now your hand is in, I wish you would copy out for me the
13th 17th and 24th of Barrow’s
sermons in folio, and all of Tillotson’s (folio also) except the first, which I have
in Manuscript, and which, you know, is Ayrton’s favorite. Then—but I won’t trouble you any
farther just now. Why does not A come and see me?
Can’t he and Henry Crabbe concert
it? ’Tis as easy as lying is to me. Mary’s kindest love to you both.
Marianne Ayrton [née Arnold] (d. 1836)
The eldest daughter of the composer Samuel Arnold; in 1803 she married the impresario
William Ayrton. She was the sister of the theater manager Samuel James Arnold.
William Ayrton (1777-1858)
A founding member of the Philharmonic Society and manager of the Italian opera at the
King's Theatre; he wrote for the
Morning Chronicle and the
Examiner.
Isaac Barrow (1630-1677)
Professor of Greek (1660) and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics (1663) at Cambridge;
author of
Exposition of the Creed, Decalogue, and Sacraments (1669).
His sermons were much admired.
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.
Henry Crabb Robinson (1775-1867)
Attorney, diarist, and journalist for
The Times; he was a founder
of the Athenaeum Club.
