Compliments to Mr. Jackson and darling friend. I hope they are well.
[Charles Lamb adds:—]
C. Lamb particularly desires to be remembered to Southey and all the
Southeys, as well as to Mrs. C. and her little Coleridges. Mrs. C.'s
letters have all been sent as Coleridge left word, to Motley's,
Portsmouth.
[The Ben Jonson in Lamb's own library was the 1692 folio; his Beaumont and Fletcher, which may be seen at the British Museum, was the folio 1647 or 1679.
Spenser's prose work, View of the Present State of Ireland, is that referred to.
"John Ford." Lamb says in the Dramatic Specimens, 1808, "Ford was of the first order of poets."
Dorothy Wordsworth (afterwards the wife of Edward Quillinan) was born
August 16, 1804.
"Your brave sailor-brother"—John Wordsworth.
Mrs. Coleridge now had three children—Hartley, Derwent and Sara. We do not know whether or no she stayed with the Lambs, as suggested. Her brother was George Fricker.
William Hazlitt's sister was Peggy Hazlitt. His sister-in-law, Mrs.
Hazlitt, was the wife of John Hazlitt, the miniature painter.