[Then, written at the bottom of the page] there's [and written on the next page] there's nothing over here.
[Moxon was moving from 64 New Bond Street to 33 Dover Street.
"Silk Cloak" would, I imagine, probably be a name for Emma Isola.
"The Sonnets of Sydney"—Lamb's Elia essay on this subject. It was not omitted from the Last Essay, which Moxon was to publish, and eleven sonnets were quoted.
"Your fallen predecessor." It is hardly needful to say that Moxon made very little difference to Murray's business. The line is from Pope's Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace. To Mr. Murray, who afterwards was Earl of Mansfield.]
LETTER 560
CHARLES LAMB TO EDWARD MOXON
[Feb. 10. P.M. Feby. 11, 1833.]
I wish you would omit "by the author of Elia," now, in advertising that damn'd "Devil's Wedding."
I had sneaking hopes you would have dropt in today—tis my poor birthday. Don't stay away so. Give Forster a hint—you are to bring your brother some day—sisters in better weather.