Page 455. Parental Recollections.
(?) Charles Lamb. The first line was quoted by him in the Elia essay "The Old and the New Schoolmaster." The poem may be considered as the poetical correlative of the beautiful Elia essay "Dream-Children."
Page 455. The Two Boys.
By Mary Lamb. Quoted by Lamb, as by "a quaint poetess," in his Elia essay "Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading."
Page 456. The Offer.
(?) Mary Lamb.
Page 456. The Sister's Expostulation on the Brother's Learning
Latin.
(?) Charles Lamb. Many years later Mary Lamb wrote a sonnet in Blackwood on a kindred subject, addressed to Emma Isola. Mary Lamb taught Latin to Mary Cowden Clarke (when Mary Victoria Novello) and to William Hazlitt's son, also to Miss Kelly.
Page 457. The Brother's Reply.
(?) Charles Lamb.