American dramatist and friend of Washington Irving who worked in England and France from 1813 to 1832; he was author of Brutus, or, the Fall of Tarquin: an Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts (1818).

CORRESPONDENCE OF John Howard Payne:

Charles Lamb to John Howard Payne, [Autumn 1822] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to John Howard Payne, [22 October 1822] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to John Howard Payne, 13 November 1822 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to John Howard Payne, [January 1823] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to John Howard Payne, 23 January 1823 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to John Howard Payne, [9 February 1822] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

John Howard Payne to William Godwin, 30 November 1833 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)