"Monkey" was Louisa Martin, a little girl of whom Lamb was fond and whom he knew to the end of his life.
Manning studied medicine at the Westminster Hospital for six months previous to May, 1806.
"The Oxford Leonardos … the Blenheim Leonardo." The only Leonardos at Oxford are the drawings at Christ Church. The Blenheim Leonardo was probably Boltraffio's "Virgin and Child" which used to be ascribed to Da Vinci, as indeed were many pictures he never painted. Hazlitt subsequently wrote a work on the Picture Galleries of England, but he mentions none of these works.
"Mr. Dawe's gallery." George Dawe (1781-1829), afterwards R.A., of whom Lamb wrote his essay "Recollections of a Late Royal Academician," where he alludes again to the picture of Samson (see Vol. I. of this edition).
"Dyson's." Dyson was a friend of Godwin. Mrs. Professor was Mrs. Godwin.
"Miss Dawe." I know nothing further of George Dawe's sister. Fanny Imlay was the unfortunate daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (by Gilbert Imlay the author). She committed suicide in 1816.
Nelson was killed on October 21, 1805. Scott was his chaplain, and he was not killed.
Hume was Joseph Hume, an official at Somerset House, whom we shall meet again directly.
The American Farmer was very likely Gilbert Imlay's novel The
Emigrants, 1793, or possibly his Topographical Description of the
Western Territory of North America, 1792.
Charles Kemble, brother of John Philip Kemble and father of Fanny
Kemble.