the year 1832.

C.L. Fecit.--

[Lamb refers still to the "Barrenness of Imagination" series.

There are several scraps addressed by Lamb to Forster in the South
Kensington Museum; but they are undated and of little importance. I
append one or two here:--]

LETTER 556

CHARLES LAMB TO JOHN FORSTER

[No date.]

Orders.

Go to Dilke's, or Let Mockson, and ax him to add this to what I sent him
a few days since, or to continue it the week after. The Plantas &c. are
capital.

Requests.

Come down with M. and _Dante_ and L.E.L. on Sunday.

ELIA.

I don't mean at his House, but the Atheneum office. Send it there. Hand
shakes.

[The Plantas would probably be a reference to the family of Joseph
Plantas of the British Museum. M. and Dante and L.E.L. would be Moxon,
Cary and Letitia Landon, the poetess, to whom Forster was for a while
engaged.

This letter, up to a certain point, was repeated as follows. It also is
at South Kensington:--]

LETTER 557

CHARLES LAMB TO JOHN FORSTER

[No date.]

I wish youd go to Dilke's, or let Mockson, and ax him to add this to
what I sent him a few days since, or to continue it the week after. The
Plantas &c. are capital. Come down with Procter and Dante on Sunday. I
send you the last proof--not of my friendship. I knew you would like the
title. I do thoroughly. The Last Essays of Elia keeps out any notion of
its being a second volume.

LETTER 558

CHARLES LAMB TO JOHN FORSTER

[No date.]

There was a talk of Richmond on Sunday but we were hampered with an
unavoidable engagement that day, besides that I wish to show it you when
the woods are in full leaf. Can you have a quiet evening here to night
or tomorrow night? We are certainly at home.

Yours C. LAMB.

Friday.

LETTER 559

CHARLES LAMB TO EDWARD MOXON

[P.M. Jan. 24, 1833.]

Dear Murray! _Moxon_ I mean.--I am not to be making you pay postage
every day, but cannot let pass the congratulations of sister, brother,
and "Silk Cloak," _all most cordial_ on your change of place. Rogers
approving, who can demur? Tell me when you get into Dover St. and what
the _No_. is--that I may change foolscap for gilt, and plain Mr. for
Esqr. I shall _Mister_ you while you stay--

If you are not too great to attend to it, I wish us to do without the
Sonnets of Sydney: 12 will take up as many pages, and be too palpable a
fill up. P