E. G. J. _September_, 1891.
[1] Letter L.
[2] Cowley.
[3] The James Elia of the essay "My Relations."
[4] Letter I.
[5] Talfourd's Memoir.
[6] Carlyle.
[7] It would seem from Lamb's letter to Coleridge (Letter IV.) that it
was _he_, not the landlord, who appeared thus too late, and who snatched
the knife from the unconscious hand.
[8] The reader is referred to Lamb's beautiful essay, "Dream Children."
[9] If we except his passing tenderness for the young Quakeress, Hester
Savory, Lamb admitted that he had never spoken to the lady in his life.
[10] Letter LXXXIII.
[11] Letters LXV IL., LXVIII., LXIX.
[12] W. S. Landor.
[13] In assuming this pseudonym Lamb borrowed the name of a fellow-clerk
who had served with him thirty years before in the South Sea House,--an
Italian named Elia. The name has probably never been pronounced as Lamb
intended. "_Call him Ellia_," he said in a letter to J. Taylor,
concerning this old acquaintance.
[14] Letter XVII.
[15] The rather unimportant series, "Popular Fallacies," appeared in the
"New Monthly."
[16] In the essay "The Superannuated Man" Lamb describes, with
certain changes and modifications, his retirement from the India House.
I.
TO SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.
_May_ 27, 1796.
Dear Coleridge,--Make yourself perfectly easy about May. I paid his bill
when I sent your clothes.
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