[Knowles' play "The Wife," produced at Covent Garden, was moved to the
Olympic on May 9.]
LETTER 580
CHARLES LAMB TO JOHN FORSTER
[P.M. May 12, 1833.]
Dear Boy, I send you the original Elias, complete. When I am a little composed, I shall hope to see you and Proctor here; may be, may see you first in London.
C.L.
[In the Dyce and Forster collection, at South Kensington, are preserved some of these MSS.
Here should come a letter to Miss Rickman, dated May 23, 1833. "Perhaps, as Miss Kelly is just now in notoriety, it may amuse you to know that 'Barbara S.' is all of it true of her, being all communicated to me from her own mouth. The 'wedding' you of course found out to be Sally Burney's.">[