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another stamp on it. [Around the seal of this note are the words in Lamb's hand: "Obiit Edwardus Reflector Armiger, 31 Dec., 1832. Natus tres hebdomidas. Pax animae ejus." The newspaper stamp at that time was fourpence (less 25 per cent.). Here should come a letter from Lamb to Louisa Badams (_nee_ Holcroft), dated December 31, 1832, not available for this edition, in which, after some plain speaking about the Westwoods, Lamb refers to the murder of Mr. Danby at Enfield by Fare and two other men on the night of December 19, and says that he had been in their company at the inn a little before, and the next morning was asked to give his evidence. Canon Ainger says that Lamb's story is a hoax, but it reads reasonably enough and might as easily have happened as not.] LETTER 554 CHARLES LAMB TO EDWARD MOXON [No date. Jan., 1833.] I have a proof from Dilke. _That_ serves for next Saturday. What Forster had, will serve a second. I sent you a _third_ concluding article for _him_ and _us_ (a capital hit, I think, about Cervantes) of which I leave you to judge whether we shall not want it to print _before_ a third or even second week. In that case beg D. to clap them in all at once; and keep the Atheneums to print from. What I send is the concluding Article of the painters. Soften down the Title in the Book to "Defect of the Imaginative Faculty in Artists." Consult Dilke. [Lamb's _Elia_ essay "Barrenness of the Imaginative Faculty in the Production of Modern Art," intended originally for _The Englishman's Magazine_, was partly printed by Forster in _The Reflector_ and finally printed in full in _The Athenaeum_ in January and February, 1833. The reference to Don Quixote is at the end. Moxon was already printing the _Last Essays of Elia_. "Consult Dilke" was a favourite phrase with Lamb and Hood and, long before, with Keats.] LETTER 555 CHARLES LAMB TO EDWARD MOXON [P.M. Jan. 3(1833).] Be sure and let me have the Atheneum--or, if they don't appear, the Copy back again. I have no other. I am glad you are introduced to Rickman, _cultivate the introduction_. I will not forget to write to him. I want to see Blackwood, but _not without you_. We are yet Emma-less. And so that is all I can remember. This is a corkscrew. [_Here is a florid corkscrew._] C. Lamb, born 1775 flourished about
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