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of his own personal interest. The following year he published
"Tales from bhakespeare" followed by “Specimens of English 1Jramatic
Poets" The adventures of Ulysses" "Mrs. Leicester's School"
"Poetry for Children” ‘“ ‘ last mentioned he received the
tance of his
eye were largely autobiographical and were

inspired by incidents in his everyday life, for instance while liv-
ing in Colebrooke Bow, Islington, which was situated on the New
River, Lamb received a visit from his friend GeorgXe Dyer, the
noted historian of Cambridge, who was very near sighted, when the
frienrs "rted Dyer walced right into the New River and caused
Lamb several moments of anxiety, to which he gave full vent in
his essay “Amicus Redivivus”. "Old China" desrihes his love and
appreciation of Look-collecting. The essay "Dissertation upon
Roast Pig" was written in
Manning who at the time was %yelling and exploring in China and
Thibet. This legen$u which gives the origin of edging a rig, is
a Very ancientone, and is said to have been knmm in the thrd cen-
tur‘. Lamb Wis very fond of roast pig, and his rhapsody was a na—
tural one. In a letter to Coleridge, written on March 9, 1822,
discussing the present of a small pig, Lamfigave the substance of
this legend. Six months later he wrote the essay, on somewhat the
same lines, giving his fancy fuller play, and rollicking through
the subject in a highy characteristic manner.

In the introd ction to the last ”Essays of Elia" Lamb
makes another humorous review of himself.
"This poor gentlemen, who for some months past had been in a declin-

ing Way, hath,_at length paid his final tribute to nature. To say
truth, it is time he were gone. The humour of the thing, if there

 

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was ever much in it, Was pretty well exhausted; and a two years'
and a half existence ?has been a tolerable duration for a pantom.
I am now at liberty to confes , that much which I have heard ob-
jected to my late friend's writings was well-founded. Crude they
are, I grant you - a art of unlicked, incbndite things ~ villain-
ously pranked in an affected a‘ray of antique modes and phrases...
Egotistical they have been pronounced by some who did not Know...
My late friend was in many respects a singular character. Those
who did not like him, hated him;...the truth is, he gave himself
too little concern What he uttered, and in whose presence;..Your
long and ouch talkers hated him. The informal habit of Lie mind,
joined to an inveterate impediment of speech, for ade him to be an
orator; sud he seemed determined that no one else should play that
part when he was present....The impressions of infancy had burnt
into him, and he resented the impertinence of man bod. These were
weaknesses; but such as they were, they are a key to explacate some
of his weitings."

Upon Lamb's retirnent from the India House, where he
had labored for thirty-three years, he recieved an annual pension
of our hundred and forty one pounds which enabled him to follow
out his inclinations and . i ,’ frolicing and cavorting in the
"Essays of Elia".

My acquaintance with the noted Lamb Editor Alfred
Ainger, began with correspondence 1: 1890, and upen my trip to
London in 1905, thirteen years later I hastened to call on "The
laster of the Temple" in his charming Rectory adjoining the Temple

Chur h. Whe more fitting to be Editor of Lamb's Works than he?--

Cannon Ainger snowed me his Lamb collection and among other hooks

which interested me profoundly Was a faCSimile copy of Shakespeare's

Tragedy of

 

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coke from Lamo' s Liorn- I have before we catalogue of

Five of which contain nooee these

mThey in interest from the Lfl,cin of Vincent

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Works of Lord Bacon, flichael Dnnyton, The Luche of

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Poems, 1’7 til uolzlin'”; < Aura-a."

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the now« ?"a;ntic momente, hibliogrsphicelly L,ccninou’
Of JV 4'? Ni: when Lamb's COpy of Chaucer WES offered ” :5 ./ It

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Wee number 2 in the catelogue and was dee/r’h;w .- w cruvucer
awe-‘2“.
(Geffrey) "The Worke of en Ancient and Learned En;i1-:h Poet,
Lita: te'e Story of Thebes SpXeght edition, folio, black letter, good
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copy, old calf, London, 1598.” The catclOQuer, who must long

been laid to rett, failed to notice the" ' olank leevee in the

of the c:cy wtxe lit er lly crowded with notes and commente in Lamb‘n

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hendvm i11ingg. I knew the book well, because in Hr. lredericneon's
L1 Mbr Ty I had conned it many times. A I eat in the ltwloon, my heart

jump \Vhen thi: number was offered, "hoping a ain st hope" that no
one else had discovered Lamb's handwriting; but sleet one of my fellow
hook-seller: had made th= same discovery, and he ran me up to three
hundred e.nd forty dollars. But I left the auction room the proud poss-
essor of the unique volume and the next morning found the incident
recorded in the "New York Sun."

In relation to this very copy, Lamb/in writing to Aineworth in
1823, said; "I have not a black letter book amongst mine, old Chaucer
excepted." The book originally was purchased from Esrtlett & Welford,
oy Willie m E. Burton, the Actor. It was bought at the Burton sale in
1860 by E. A. Crowninshield, of Boston, and when the Crowninehield
Library wee sold en bloc to Henry Btev as, of Vermont and London, Hr.
Frederickeon took an express train for Boston aid persuaded Mr. Stevens
to part wit} this folio.

Another of the books from the Lamb'Library now in my possession

is "The Cities Greet Concern,0r wiestion of Honor and e§.Arme. ’Uhethor
,1 ,_ h. 1.; ()1 ,1
Apprenticeship Extinguisheth Gentry!A Ihie copy lacks the title page,

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of :1 volumes -?.:t once elonged 3' - 3 t a“ «“ ‘tx? n;o:: lhu-lj Z
13 U. eternal l» file hills, pno ‘ ,; T.~ own Chaxaoter 3': gore worthy
to '~ T d, understood and imitu: f ‘~r ".»- souoolled Heroes of War,

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These were all reprinted in the two volume edition of Lamb's works.

My copy of this precious little book contains this
inscription, "Chs. Lamb to William Dawson, friend of C.L's very
good friend Edward Moxon." Evidently this once belonged to a
fiescendant of the William Dawson been se it has indications of
former ownership. ”J.H. Dawson" being stamped on the fly-leaf.
Some former owner had this precious volume bound in half calf with
marbled edges, a style rapidly becoming extinct.

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Perhaps this is a j ’ j ace b0 mention

Mrs. Moxon lived to the ripe old age of 82 years and d’

Chester on February 14th 1891. She almaye referred to her foster

father as 'my uncle9 and held Charles and Hary in sacred memory.