"Your stanzas on pre existence"—the "Ode on Intimations of
Immortality."
The Pleasures of Hope was Campbell's poem.
Mary Sabilla Novello was the wife of Vincent Novello, the organist, and
Lamb's friend.
The White Doe of Rylstone had been published in 1815.
The 9th sonnet. Certain sonnets had been published with The Waggoner.
The 9th was that beginning:—
Grief, thou hast lost an ever ready Friend.
Wordsworth's sonnet upon Walton begins:—
While flowing rivers yield a blameless sport.
The Recluse was not published until 1888, and then only Book I.
The Champion, in which Talfourd reviewed Lamb's Works, had now become the property of John Thelwall.]