[Mary Lamb's letter of news either was not written or has not been preserved.
Lamb returned to the subject of this essay for his Popular Fallacy "That Home is Home" in 1826 (see Vol. II. of this edition). A little previously to that essay he had written an article in the New Times on unwelcome callers (see Vol. I.).
"Miss Burrell"—Fanny Burrell, afterwards Mrs. Gould. Lamb wrote in praise of her performance in "Don Giovanni in London" (see Vol. I. of this edition).
"Fanny Kelly's divine plain face." Only seventeen months later Lamb proposed to Miss Kelly.
"What Coleridge said." Coleridge was still lecturing on Shakespeare and poetry in Flower-de-Luce Court.
"The two theatres"—Drury Lane and Covent Garden.
"Bishop"—Sir Henry Rowley Bishop (1786-1855), composer of "Home, Sweet
Home."
"Christabel's father."
Each matin bell, the Baron saith,
Knells us back to a world of death.
Part II., lines 1 and 2.
"W. H. goes on lecturing." Hazlitt was delivering a course of lectures on the English poets at the Surrey Institution.