Literary Gazette if you have
one. The Piozzi and that shall be immed'tly return'd, and I keep Mad.
Darblay for you eventually, a longwinded reader at present having use of
it.

The weather is so queer that I will not say I _expect_ you &c.--but am
prepared for the pleasure of seeing you when you can come.

We had given you up (the post man being late) and Emma and I have 20
times this morning been to the door in the rain to spy for him coming.

Well, I know it is not all settled, but your letter is chearful and
cheer-making.

We join in triple love to you.

ELIA & Co.

I am settled _in any case_ to take at Bookseller's price any copies I
have more. Therefore oblige me by sending a copy of Elia to Coleridge
and B. Barton, and enquire (at your leisure of course) how I can send
one, with a letter, to Walter Savage Landor. These 3 put in your next
bill on me. I am peremptory that it shall be so. These are all I can
want.

*Is it the Western? he goes to Reading &c.

[John Taylor, representing the firm of Taylor & Hessey, seems to have
set up a claim of copyright in those essays in the _Last Essays of Elia_
that were printed in the _London Magazine_. For Procter's part, see next
letter.

_Piozziana; or, Recollections of the late Mrs. Piozzi_ (Johnson's Mrs.
Thrale), was published in 1833. It was by the Rev. E. Mangin.

Mad. Darblay would be _The Memoirs of Dr. Burney_, 1832, by his daughter
Madame d'Arblay (Admiral Burney's niece). The book was severely handled
in the _Quarterly_ for April, 1833.

The following letter, which is undated, seems to refer to the difficulty
mentioned above:--]

LETTER 566

CHARLES LAMB TO B.W. PROCTER

Enfield, Monday.

Dear P----, I have more than L30 in my house, and am independent of
quarter-day, not having received my pension.

Pray settle, I beg of you, the matter with Mr. Taylor. I know nothing of
bills, but most gladly will I forward to you that sum for him, for Mary
is very anxious that M[oxon] may not get into any litigation. The money
is literally rotting in my desk for want of use. I should not interfere
with M----, tell M---- when you see him, but Mary is really uneasy; so
lay it to that account, not mine.

Yours ever and two evers,

C.L.

Do it smack at once, and I will explain to M---- why I did it. It is
simply done to ease her mind. When you have settled, write, and I'll
send the bank notes to you twice, in halves.

Deduct from it your share in br