The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, vol 5 | Page 6

Mr. Hazlitt's text (_The Lambs_).
210 Charles Lamb to John Scott Dec. 12 From Mr. R. B. Adam's original.
211 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth Dec. 28 From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
1815.
212 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth ?Early Jan. From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
213 Charles Lamb to Mr. Sargus Feb. 23 From the original in the possession of Mr. Thomas Greg.
214 Charles Lamb to Joseph Hume No date Mr. Kegan Paul's text (_William Godwin: His Friends_, etc.).
215 Charles Lamb to [Mrs. Hume?] No date From the American owner.
216 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth April 7 From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
217 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth April 28 From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
218 Charles Lamb to Robert Southey May 6 Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
219 Charles Lamb to Robert Southey Aug. 9 Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
220 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth Aug. 9 From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
221 Mary Lamb to Sarah Hutchinson Aug. 20
222 Charles Lamb to Sarah Hutchinson Aug. 20 From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
223 Mary Lamb to Matilda Betham ?Late summer From _Fraser's Magazine_.
224 Charles Lamb to Matilda Betham No date From A House of Letters.
225 Charles Lamb to Matilda Betham No date Mr. Hazlitt's text (_The Lambs_).
226 Charles Lamb to Sarah Hutchinson Oct. 19 From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
227 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Dec. 25 Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
228 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning Dec. 26 Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
1816.
229 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth April 9 From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
230 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth April 26 From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
231 Charles Lamb to Matilda Betham June 1 From _Fraser's Magazine_.
232 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth Sept. 23 From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
233 Mary Lamb to Sarah Hutchinson Middle of Nov. From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
234 Mary Lamb to Sarah Hutchinson Late in year From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
1817.
235 Charles Lamb to William Ayrton May 12 From Ayrton's transcript in Lamb's Works, Vol. III.
236 Charles Lamb to Barren Field Aug. 31 Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
237 Charles Lamb to James and Louisa Kenney Oct. Text from Mr. Samuel Davey.
238 Mary Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth Nov. 21
239 Charles Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth Nov. 21 From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
240 Charles Lamb to John Payne Collier. Dec. 10 Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
241 Charles Lamb to Benjamin Robert Haydon Dec. 26 From Tom Taylor's Life of Haydon.
1818.
242 Charles Lamb to Mrs. William Wordsworth Feb. 18 From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
243 Charles Lamb to Charles and James Ollier June 18 From the original (Morrison Collection).
244 Charles Lamb to Robert Southey Oct. 26 Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
245 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Dec. 24 Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
1819.
246 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth April 26 From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
247 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning May 28 Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
248 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth June 7 From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
249 Charles Lamb to Fanny Kelly July 20 Mr. John Hollingshead's text (_Harper's Magazine_).
250 Charles Lamb to Fanny Kelly July 20 John Hollingshead's text (_Harper's Magazine_).
251 Charles Lamb to Thomas Noon Talfourd(?) August (Original in the possession of the Master of Magdelene.)
252 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge ?Summer From the original (Morrison Collection).
253 Charles Lamb to Thomas Holcroft, Jr. Autumn From the original (Morrison Collection).
254 Charles Lamb to Joseph Cottle Nov. 5 Mr. Hazlitt's text.
255 Charles Lamb to Joseph Cottle (_incomplete_) Late in year Mr. Hazlitt's text.
256 Charles Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth Nov. 25 From Mr. Gordon Wordsworth's original.
1820.
257 Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge Jan. 10 Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn) with alterations.
258 Mary Lamb to Mrs. Vincent Novello Spring From the Cowden Clarkes' Recollections of Writers.
259 Charles Lamb to Joseph Cottle May 26 Mr. Hazlitt's text.
260 Charles Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth May 25 From Professor Knight's Life of Wordsworth.
261 Charles Lamb to Thomas Allsop July 13
262 Charles and Mary Lamb to Samuel James Arnold No date
263 Charles Lamb to Barron Field Aug. 16 Mr. Hazlitt's text (_The Lambs_).
263A Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge ?Autumn Mr. Hazlitt's text (Bohn).
APPENDIX
Coleridge's "Ode on the Departing Year" Wither's "Supersedeas" Dyer's "Poetic Sympathies" (_fragment_) Haydon's Party (from Taylor's _Life of Haydon_)
FRONTISPIECE
CHARLES LAMB (AGED 44)
From a Water-colour Drawing by J. G. F. Joseph.

THE LETTERS OF CHARLES AND MARY LAMB
1796-1820

LETTER 1
CHARLES LAMB TO S. T. COLERIDGE
[Postmark May 27, 1796.]
DEAR C---- make yourself perfectly easy about May. I paid his bill, when I sent your clothes. I was flush of money, and am so still to all the purposes of a single life, so give yourself no further concern about it. The money would be superfluous to me, if I had it.
With regard to Allen,--the woman he has married has some money, I have heard about ￡200 a year, enough for the maintenance of herself & children, one of whom is a girl nine years old! so Allen