CHARLES LAMB TO WILLIAM HONE [No date. April, 1824.]
Dear Sir,—Miss Hazlitt (niece to Pygmalion) begs us to send to you for Mr. Hardy a parcel. I have not thank'd you for your Pamphlet, but I assure you I approve of it in all parts, only that I would have seen my Calumniators at hell, before I would have told them I was a Xtian, tho' I am one, I think as much as you. I hope to see you here, some day soon. The parcel is a novel which I hope Mr. H. may sell for her. I am with greatest friendliness
Yours C. LAMB.
Sunday.
["Pygmalion." A reference to Hazlitt's Liber Amoris; or, The New
Pygmalion, 1823.
Hone's pamphlet would be his Aspersions Answered: an Explanatory
Statement to the Public at Large and Every Reader of the "Quarterly
Review," 1824.
Here should come a note from Lamb to Thomas Hardy, dated April 24, 1824, in which Lamb says that Miss Hazlitt's novel, which Mr. Hardy promised to introduce to Mr. Ridgway, the publisher, is lying at Mr. Hone's. Hardy was a bootmaker in Fleet Street.]
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CHARLES LAMB TO BERNARD BARTON
May 15, 1824.