CHARLES LAMB TO MATILDA BETHAM
[No date. ?1808.]
Dear Miss B.—I send you three Tickets which will serve the first course of C.'s Lectures, six in number, the first begins tomorrow. Excuse the cover being not or fa, is not that french? I have no writing paper.
Yours truly,
C. LAMB.
N.B. It is my present, not C.'s, id. est he gave 'em me, I you.
LETTER 170
CHARLES LAMB TO MATILDA BETHAM
Dear Miss Betham,—I am very sorry, but I was pre-engaged for this evening when Eliza communicated the contents of your letter. She herself also is gone to Walworth to pass some days with Miss Hays—
"G-d forbid I should pass my days with Miss H—ys"
but that is neither here nor there. We will both atone for this accident by calling upon you as early as possible.