[7] It would seem from Lamb's letter to Coleridge (Letter IV.) that it was he, not the landlord, who appeared thus too late, and who snatched the knife from the unconscious hand.
[8] The reader is referred to Lamb's beautiful essay, "Dream Children."
[9] If we except his passing tenderness for the young Quakeress, Hester Savory, Lamb admitted that he had never spoken to the lady in his life.
[10] Letter LXXXIII.
[11] Letters LXV IL., LXVIII., LXIX.
[12] W. S. Landor.
[13] In assuming this pseudonym Lamb borrowed the name of a fellow-clerk who had served with him thirty years before in the South Sea House,—an Italian named Elia. The name has probably never been pronounced as Lamb intended. "Call him Ellia," he said in a letter to J. Taylor, concerning this old acquaintance.
[14] Letter XVII.
[15] The rather unimportant series, "Popular Fallacies," appeared in the "New Monthly."
[16] In the essay "The Superannuated Man" Lamb describes, with certain changes and modifications, his retirement from the India House.