"That is to say, if you think the sketch good enough.
"I take on myself the warranty.
"Can you slip down here some day and go a Green-dragoning?
"C. L.
"Enfield (Mrs. Leishman's, Chase).
"If you do, send Hood the number, No. 2 Robert St., Adelphi, and keep the sketch for me."
Lamb subsequently appended the observations himself. The text of his little article, changing Mary Lamb into Mrs. Gilpin, followed in Mr. Locker-Lampson's album. The postmark is July 17, 1827.
Lamb was fond of jokes about styles. Writing to Dodwell, of the India House, from Calne, in the summer of 1816, he said, after dating his letter old style: "No new style here, all the styles are old, and some of the gates too for that matter."
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