N.B. I have writ in the old Hamlet, offer it to Mitford in my name, if he have not seen it. Tis woefully below our editions of it. But keep it, if you like. (What is M. to me?)
I do not mean this to go for a letter, only to apprize you, that the parcel is booked for you this 25 March 1829 from the Four Swans Bishopsgate.
With both our loves to Lucy and A.K. Yours Ever
C.L.
["Darley's… poem"—Sylvia; or, The May Queen, by George Darley.
"Christmas"—a poem by Edward Moxon, dedicated to Lamb.
"Field's Appendix"—Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales, edited by
Barron Field, with his First-Fruits of Australian Poetry as Appendix.
The old romance, Dr. Paget Toynbee points out, is Les Dous Amanz of Marie of France, which Lamb had read in Miss Betham's metrical translation, The Lay of Marie.]