Pray give me one line to say if you receiv'd and forwarded Emma's pacquet to Miss Adams,
and how Dover St. looks.
Adieu.
Is there no Blackwood this month?
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What separation will there be between the friend's preface, and THE ESSAYS? Should not "Last Essays &c." head them? If 'tis too late, don't mind. I don't care a farthing about it.
["What separation"—the Last Essays of Elia were preceded by "A
Character of the Late Elia."
Here should come a letter from Lamb to Louisa Badams, dated February 15, 1833. Lamb begins with a further reference to the Enfield murder. He says that his sister and himself have got through the Inferno with the help of Cary, and Mary is beginning Tasso.]