Page 47. In the Album of Lucy Barton.
These lines were sent by Lamb to Lucy Barton's father, Bernard Barton, the Quaker poet, in the letter of September 30, 1824. Lucy Barton, who afterwards became the wife of Edward FitzGerald, the translator of Omar Khayyam, lived until November 27, 1898. She retained her faculties almost to the end, and in 1892 kindly wrote out for me her memory of a visit paid with her father to the Lambs at Colebrook Row about 1825—a little reminiscence first printed in Bernard Barton and His Friends, 1893.
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Page 48. In the Album of Miss——.
This poem was first printed in Blackwood's Magazine, May, 1829, entitled "For a Young Lady's Album." The identity of the young lady is not now discoverable: probably a school friend of Emma Isola's.
Page 48. In the Album of a very young Lady.
Josepha was a daughter of Mrs. Williams, of Fornham.
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Page 49. In the Album of a French Teacher.
First printed in Blackwood's Magazine, June, 1829, entitled "For the
Album of: Miss——, French Teacher at Mrs. Gisborn's School, Enfield."
Page 49. In the Album of Miss Daubeny.