CHARLES LAMB TO JOHN FORSTER
[? Late April, 1832.]
One day in my life
Do come. C.L.
I have placed poor Mary at Edmonton—
I shall be very glad to see the Hunch Back and Straitback the 1st Even'g they can come. I am very poorly indeed. I have been cruelly thrown out. Come and don't let me drink too much. I drank more yesterday than I ever did any one day in my life.
C.L.
Do come.
Cannot your Sister come and take a half bed—or a whole one? Which, alas, we have to spare.
[Mary Lamb would have been taken to Walden House, Edmonton, where mental patients were received. A year later the Lambs moved there altogether.
The Hunchback would be Knowles; the Straitback I do not recognise.