gentle, as herself. Tis a type of thy friend.

Will you pardon my neglect? Mind, again I say, don't shew this to M.;
let me wait a little longer to know the event of his Luxuries. (I am
sure he is a good fellow, tho' I made a serious Yorkshire Lad, who met
him, stare when I said he was a Clergyman. He is a pleasant Layman
spoiled.) Heaven send him his jars uncrack'd, and me my---- Yours with
kindest wishes to your daughter and friend, in which Mary joins

C.L.

["I saved nothing." Lamb, however, according to Procter, left L2000 at
his death eight years later. He must have saved L200 a year from his
pension of L441, living at the rate of L241 per annum, plus small
earnings, for the rest of his life, and investing the L200 at 5 per
cent, compound interest.

"Colburn had something of mine." The Popular Fallacy "That a Deformed
Person is a Lord," not included by Lamb with the others when he
reprinted them. Printed in Vol. I. of this edition.

"Reading at the Museum." Lamb had begun to visit the Museum every day to
collect extracts from the Garrick plays for Hone's _Table Book_, 1827.

"A.K."--Anne Knight again.

The pleasant Yorkshire lad whom Mitford's secular air surprised was
probably Moxon.

Here might come a business letter, from Lamb to Barton, preserved in the
British Museum, relating to Mitford's jars.]

LETTER 403

CHARLES LAMB TO EDWARD MOXON

[No date. ? Sept., 1826.]

I have had much trouble to find Field to-day. No matter. He was packing
up for out of town. He has writ a handsomest letter, which you will
transmit to Murry with your proof-sheets. Seal it.--

Yours C. L----.

Mrs. Hood will drink tea with us on Thursday at 1/2 past 5 _at Latest_.

N.B. I have lost my Museum reading today: a day with Titus: owing to
your dam'd bisness.--I am the last to reproach anybody. I scorn it.

If you shall have the whole book ready soon, it will be best for Murry
to see.

[I am not clear as to what proof-sheets of Moxon's Lamb refers. His
second book, _Christmas_, 1829, was issued through Hurst, Chance & Co.

Barton Field and John Murray were friends.

"A day with Titus." Can this (a friend suggests) have any connection
with the phrase _Amici! diem perdidi?_ There is no Titus play among the
Garrick Extracts.]

LETTER 404

CHARLES LAMB TO BERNARD BARTON

[No postmark or date. Soon after preceding letter to Barton. 1826.]

Dear B.B.--the _Busy Bee_, as Hood after Dr. Watts apostroph