[At the top of the first page is added:—]
Omitted at the end … believe me with friendly recollections, Brother (as I used to call you) Yours C. LAMB.
[Below the "Dear Wilson" is added in smaller writing:—]
The review was not mine, nor have I seen it.
[Lamb's friend Walter Wilson was beginning his Memoirs of the Life and
Times of Daniel Defoe, 1830. The passage sent to him in this letter by
Lamb he printed in Vol. III., page 428. Some years later Lamb sent
Wilson a further criticism. See also letter below for the reference to
Roxana.
Dodwell we have met. Of Wadd we have no information, except, according to Crabb Robinson's Diary, that he once accidentally discharged a pen full of ink into Lamb's eye and that Lamb wrote this epigram upon him:—
What Wadd knows, God knows,
But God knows what Wadd knows.]
LETTER 303
CHARLES LAMB TO BERNARD BARTON
[Dated at end: 23 December 1822.]