"Picture of Milton." This portrait, a reproduction of which I give in my large edition, is now in America, the property of the New York Public Library.
"V. Bourne." Lamb afterwards translated some of Bourne's Poemata and wrote critically of them in the Englishman's Magazine in 1831 (see Vols. I. and IV.).
"Lord Thurlow." But see Letter to Bernard Barton of December 5, 1828, and note.
"Extracts from those first Poems." Wordsworth included extracts from juvenile pieces, which had been first published in his Descriptive Sketches, 1793.
"A female friend"—Dorothy Wordsworth. The three poems were "Address to a Child" (beginning, "What way does the Wind come from?"), "The Mother's Return" and "The Cottager to Her Infant."
"To them each evening had its glittering star … "—The Excursion,
Book V.
"Age might but take some hours …" From Wordsworth's "Small
Celandine":—
Age might but take the things Youth needed not.]
LETTER 217
CHARLES LAMB TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
[P.M. April 28, 1815.]