CHAPTER I.

[1775 to 1796.]

Lamb's Parentage, Schooldays, and Youth, to the Commencement

of his Correspondence with Coleridge

CHAPTER V.

[1799, 1800.]

Letters to Southey, Coleridge, Manning, and Wordsworth

CHAPTER VI.

[1800.]

Letters to Manning, after Lamb's removal to the Temple.

CHAPTER VII.

[1801 to 1804.]

John Woodvil Rejected, Published, and Reviewed.-Letters to Man-

ning, Wordsworth, and Coleridge

67

90

104

Letters to Manning, Montague, Wordsworth, and Coleridge

148

CHAPTER X.

[1815 to 1817.]

Letters to Wordsworth, Southey, and Manning.

CHAPTER XI.

[1818 to 1820.]

Letters to Mrs. Wordsworth, Southey, Manning, and Coleridge

CHAPTER XII.

[1820 to 1823.]

Letters to Wordsworth, Coleridge, Field, Wilson, and Barton

CHAPTER XIII.

[1823.]

Letters to Robinson, Carey, Coleridge, Patmore, Procter, and Barton

CHAPTER XVII.

[1829, 1830.]

Letters to Robinson, Procter, Barton, Wilson, Gilman, Wordsworth,

and Dyer

CHAPTER XVIII.

[1830 to 1834.

I amb's last Letters and Death

POEMS.

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254

271

296

rich Noble's Palace and a poor Workhouse

Queen Oriana's Dream

A Ballad, noting the Difference of Rich and Poor, in the ways of

Hypochondriacus

341

342

343

A Farewell to Tobacco

344

To T. L. H., a Child

348

Ballad, from the German

349

Lines on the celebrated Picture by Leonardo da Vinci, called the Vir

gin of the Rocks

350

VIII. The Family Name

354

IX. To John Lamb, Esq., of the South Sea House

355

The Witch, a Dramatic Sketch of the Seventeenth Century

397

To Dora W, on being asked by her Father to write in her Album

402

In the Album of Rotha Q-

403

Written at Cambridge

To a celebrated Female Performer in the "Blind Boy"

413

Work

414

Leisure

414

To Samuel Rogers, Esq.

415

The Gipsy's Malison

415

To the Author of Poems published under the Name of Barry Corn-

wall

416

To J. S. Knowles, Esq., on his Tragedy of Virginius.

416

To the Editor of the "Every day Book"

417

To T. Stothard, Esq., on his Illustrations of the Poems of Mr. Rogers

To a Friend on his Marriage

To David Cook, of the Parish of Saint Margaret's, Westminster

Watchman

411

420

420

421

421

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THE

LETTERS

OF

CHARLES LAMB

WITH

A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE,

BY

THOMAS NOON TALFOURD

ONE OF HIS EXECUTORS.