"Payne's two successful pieces"—"Ali Pacha" and "The Soldier's
Daughter."
Fanny was Fanny Holcroft, Mrs. Kenney's stepdaughter.
Miss Kelly has added to this letter a few words of affection to Mrs.
Kenney from "the real old original Fanny Kelly."
Charles Lamb also contributed to this letter a few lines to James Kenney, expressing his readiness to meet Moore the poet. He adds that he made a hit at him as Little in the London Magazine, which though no reason for not meeting him was a reason for not volunteering a visit to him. The reference is to the sonnet to Barry Cornwall in the London Magazine for September, 1820, beginning—
Let hate, or grosser heats, their foulness mask
Neath riddling Junius, or in L——e's name.
The second line was altered in Lamb's Album Verses, 1830, to—
Under the vizor of a borrowed name.]
LETTER 301
CHARLES LAMB TO JOHN TAYLOR
[Dated: Dec. 7, 1822.]