C. LAMB.
[This letter is usually supposed to have been addressed by Lamb to Mr. and Mrs. Bruton of Mackery End. The address is, however, Mrs. Collier, Smallfield Place, East Grinstead, Sussex.
"If Evelyn could have seen him." John Evelyn's Diary had recently been published, in 1818 and 1819, in two large quarto volumes.]
LETTER 307
CHARLES LAMB TO CHARLES ADERS
[Jan. 8, 1823.]
Dear Sir—We shall have great pleasure in surprising Mrs. Aders on her Birthday—You will perceive how cunningly I have contrived the direction of this note, to evade postage.
Yours truly
C. LAMB.
8 Jan. '23.