Charles Lamb

The son of a London clerk, Charles Lamb was educated at Christ's Hospital (1782-89); there he befriended Coleridge, who published Lamb's verse in his Poems (1796, 1797). Lamb found employment as a clerk in the East India House, where he remained until retirement in 1825. Cheerful amid sorrow, he suffered a brief period mental illness, and from 1796 cared for his sister Mary, who had killed their mother in a fit of insanity. Their Tales from Shakespeare (1807) was a great success, as were Lamb's Essays of Elia, most of which originally in the London Magazine in 1820-22.

TEXT RECORDS:

1796To the Poet Cowper on his Recovery from an Indisposition. Written some time back.
1797A Vision of Repentance.
1811On the Ambiguities arising from Proper Names.
1818On the Poetical Works of George Wither.
1820Oxford at the Vacation.
1822Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading.
1826Popular Fallacies. ["The Sanity of True Genius."]

PUBLICATIONS:

Poems on various subjects by S. T. Coleridge [4 sonnets]. 1796.
Poems by S. T. Coleridge, second edition, to which are now added poems by Lamb and Charles Lloyd. 1797.
Blank verse by Charles Lloyd and Lamb. 1798.
A tale of Rosamund Gray and old blind Margaret. 1798.
John Woodvil: a tragedy; to which are added fragments of Burton. 1802.
The king and queen of hearts. 1805.
Tales from Shakespear, designed for the use of young persons. 2 vols, 1807.
Adventures of Ulysses. 1808.
Specimens of English dramatic poets who lived about the time of Shakespeare, with notes. 1808.
Mrs Leicester's school: or the history of several young ladies related by themselves. 1809.
Poetry for children. 2 vols, 1809.
Beauty and the beast ... a poetical version of an ancient tale. 1811.
Prince Dorus, or flattery put out of countenance: a poetical version of an ancient tale. 1811.
Mr. H, or beware of a bad name. 1813.
Works. 2 vols, 1818.
Elia: essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine. 1823.
Elia: second series. 1828.
Album verses. 1830.
Satan in search of a wife. 1831.
The last essays of Elia. 1833.
Recollections of Christ's hospital. 1835.
Poems. 1836.
Letters of Charles Lamb, ed. Thomas Noon Talfourd. 2 vols, 1837.
Mary and Charles Lamb: poems, letters and remains, ed. W. C. Hazlitt. 1874.
Works, ed. E. V. Lucas. 5 vols, 1903-05.
The letters of Lamb, ed. E. V. Lucas. 3 vols, 1935.
Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, ed. Edwin Marrs. 1975-.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Anglican

Christ's Hospital

clerk
poet
essayist
dramatist

The Morning Post
The Morning Chronicle
Annual Anthology
The Monthly Magazine
Blackwood's Magazine
Quarterly Review
The Champion
The Examiner
The Reflector
London Magazine
The Athenaeum
Morning Chronicle
The Table Book
Englishman's Magazine
The Gem
Christmas Box

Washington Allston
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Thomas Barnes
Bernard Barton
Rev. Henry Francis Cary
John Clare
Charles Cowden Clarke
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Payne Collier
Joseph Cottle
Allan Cunningham
George Daniel
George Darley
Thomas De Quincey
George Dyer
Sir Charles Abraham Elton
William Godwin
William Hazlitt
Thomas Hood
Leigh Hunt
John Keats
Charles Lloyd
Rev. John Mitford
Mary Russell Mitford
Edward Moxon
Bryan Waller Procter
Edward Quillinan
John Hamilton Reynolds
Henry Crabb Robinson
Samuel Rogers
Horace Smith
Robert Southey
Thomas Noon Talfourd
John Thelwall
Alaric Alexander Watts
William Wordsworth

REFERENCE:

DNB; NCBEL; CBEL (3rd ed); DLB.

Biographia Dramatica (1812); Poetical Register for 1810-11 (1814); "On Christ's Hospital, and the Character of the Christ's Hospital Boys" Gentleman's Magazine 83 (June 1813) i 540-42, ii 617-22; Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors (1816); "Works of Charles Lamb" Blackwood's Magazine 3 (August 1818) 599-610; "Horae Nicotianae" Blackwood's Magazine 5 (April 1819) 47-51; Thomas Noon Talfourd, "Remarks on Lamb" New Monthly Magazine 14 (August 1820) 129-33; "Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago" London Magazine 2 (November 1820) 483-90; Henry Nelson Coleridge, "On Charles Lamb's Poetry" Etonian 1 (1822) 344-51; William Hazlitt, Select British Poets (1824); Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica (1824); William Hazlitt, "Elia — Geoffrey Crayon" in Spirit of the Age (1825); Living Poets of England: Specimens of the Living British Poets (1827); "The Writings of Charles Lamb" Philadelphia Monthly Magazine 2 (September 1828); Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries (1828) [portrait]; The Georgian Era: Memoirs of the most Eminent Persons (1832-34); Allan Cunningham, "Literature of the last Fifty Years" The Athenaeum (16 November 1833) 769-70; "Charles Lamb" New Monthly Magazine 43 (February 1835) 198-206; William Maginn, "Gallery of Literary Characters: Charles Lamb, Esq." Fraser's Magazine 11 (February 1835) 136 [portrait]; obituary in Gentleman's Magazine NS 3 (March 1835) 325-26; Thomas Noon Talfourd, in Letters of Charles Lamb (1837) [portrait]; Thomas De Quincey, "Literary Reminiscences" (1838) in Works (1889-90) 3:34-92; S. C. Hall, in The Book of Gems (1838); Thomas Hood, "Literary Reminiscences" in Hood's Own (1839); Robert Chambers, Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844); George Gilfillan, in Gallery of Literary Portraits (1845) [portrait]; Thomas Noon Talfourd, Final Memorials of Charles Lamb (1848); John Mitford, review of Final Memorials, Gentleman's Magazine NS 30 (1848) 451-66; Thomas De Quincey, review of Final Memorials, North British Review (November 1848); "Charles Lamb" Blackwood's Magazine 66 (August 1849) 133-50; Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); Percy Fitzgerald, Charles Lamb: his Friends, his Haunts, and his Books (1866); The English Poets, ed. Thomas Humphry Ward (1880); Margaret Oliphant, in Literary History of England (1882); Maclise Gallery (1898); W. C. Hazlitt, The Lambs; Their Lives, their Friends and their Correspondence (1897); E. V. Lucas, Charles Lamb and the Lloyds (1898); Moulton, Library of Literary Criticism (1901-05); E. V. Lucas, Life of Charles Lamb (1905; 1921); J. C. Thomson, Bibliography of the Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb (1908); Edmund Blunden, Christ's Hospital, a Retrospect (1923); Edmund Blunden, Charles Lamb and his Contemporaries (1923); R. W. King, "Charles Lamb, Cary, and the London Magazine" Ninteenth Century 94 (1923) 263-69, 520-30; George Edward Wherry, Cambridge and Charles Lamb (1925); Frederick Hard, "Lamb on Spenser" Studies in Philology 28 (1931) 124-38; J. Milton French, "Lamb and Spenser" Studies in Philology 30 (1933) 205-07; Frederick Hard, "Lamb on Spenser Again" Studies in Philology 30 (1933) 533-34; R. Fukuhara, The Life of Lamb (1963); Jack, OHEL (1963); George L. Barnett, The Evolution of Elia (1964); Wallace Nethery, Eliana Americana: Charles Lamb in the United States 1849-1866 (1971); Tim Chilcott, in A Publisher and his Circle: John Taylor 1972); George L. Barnett, Charles Lamb (1976); Winifred F. Courtney, Young Charles Lamb, 1775-1802 (1982); David Cecil, A Portrait of Charles Lamb (1983); Claude A. Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb: a Guide to People and Places (1983); Spenser Encyclopedia, "Lamb" (1990) 423-25; Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database (1995).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Charles Lamb:

1.	1801  Alexander Thomson, in The British Parnassus, at the Close of the Eighteenth Century (1801) 75.
2.	1804  William Taylor of Norwich to Robert Southey, 27 March 1804; J. W. Robberds, Memoir of the Life and Writings of William Taylor (1843) 1:491.
3.	1812  William Gifford to Robert Southey, 13 February 1812; Smiles, A Publisher and his Friends: Memoir of John Murray (1891) 1:200-01.
4.	1814  Henry Crabb Robinson, 3 July 1814; Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence (1870; 1872) 1:227.
5.	1818  Anonymous, in Review of Lamb, Works; Blackwood's Magazine 3 (August 1818) 600.
6.	1819  Leigh Hunt, in "The Works of Charles Lamb" The Examiner (21 March 1819) 187.
7.	1819  John Gibson Lockhart, in Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk (1819) 2:142-43.
8.	1819  Percy Bysshe Shelley, 3 September 1819; in Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (1828) 234.
9.	1822  Mary Russell Mitford to Sir William Elford, 28 April 1822; L'Estrange, Life of Mary Russell Mitford (1870) 1:374-75.
10.	1822  John Wilson, et. al., in Blackwood's Magazine (April 1822); Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 1:170.
11.	1822 ca.  Alaric Alexander Watts to William Blackwood, 1822 ca.; Margaret Oliphant, William Blackwood and his Sons (1897) 1:501.
12.	1822  John Clare, "To Elia" London Magazine 6 (August 1822) 151.
13.	1822  James Harley, in The Press, or Literary Chit-Chat. A Satire (1822) 27-28 &n.
14.	1823  Bernard Barton, "To Elia" London Magazine 7 (February 1823) 194.
15.	1823  Anonymous, in "The Literary Police Office, Bow-Street, London" Port Folio [Philadelphia] S4 15 (June 1823) 508.
16.	1825  William Hazlitt, in "Elia, and Geoffrey Crayon" The Spirit of the Age: or Contemporary Portraits (1825) 409-20.
17.	1825  Bryan Waller Procter, "To Charles Lamb. Written over a Flask of Sherris" London Magazine NS 2 (July 1825) 332-34.
18.	1826  William Hazlitt, in The Plain Speaker (1826), ed. Smith, Donne: The Critical Heritage (1975) 289.
19.	1827  B. M., "Lamb's Miscellaneous Writings" Living Poets of England: Specimens of the Living British Poets (1827) 2:448-49.
20.	1827  E. C., "The Turk in Cheapside. To Mr. Charles Lamb" William Hone, The Table Book 1 (1827) 194-95.
21.	1828  Leigh Hunt, "Mr. Charles Lamb" Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (1828) 296-99.
22.	1828  P. P., "The Writings of Charles Lamb" Philadelphia Monthly Magazine 2 (September 1828) 334-36.
23.	1828  Anonymous, "Some Account of Mr. Charles Lamb" Imperial Magazine 10 (March 1828) 201-05.
24.	1830  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 23 September 1830; in Table Talk (1884) 110.
25.	1830  William Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, May 1830; Letters of the Wordsworth Family, ed. Knight (1907) 2:419.
26.	1830  Anonymous, in Review of Lamb, Album Verses; Edinburgh Literary Journal (10 July 1830) 25.
27.	1830  Robert Southey, "To Charles Lamb, on the Reviewal of his Album Verses in the Literary Gazette" The Athenaeum (7 August 1830) 491.
28.	1830 ca.  John Mitford, "To Charles Lamb, on his Poem called 'Leisure'" 1830 ca.; Mitford, Miscellaneous Poems (1858) 29.
29.	1833  Allan Cunningham, in "Biographical and Critical History of the Literature of the last Fifty Years" The Athenaeum (16 November 1833) 769-70.
30.	1834  Henry Francis Cary, "Lines to the Memory of Charles Lamb" 1834; R. W. King, The Translator of Dante (1925) 253.
31.	1835  William Maginn, "Gallery of Literary Characters: Charles Lamb, Esq." Fraser's Magazine 11 (February 1835) 136.
32.	1835  Henry Nelson Coleridge, "The Last Essays of Elia" Quarterly Review 54 (July 1835) 58-77.
33.	1835  Thomas Enort Smith, "The Late Charles Lamb" Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, 25 (May 1835) 356.
34.	1837  Thomas Noon Talfourd, in Letters of Charles Lamb (1837) 2:3-4.
35.	1838  Amelia Opie to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 November 1838; in L'Estrange, Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford (1882) 260-61.
36.	1839  Thomas Hood, in "Reminiscences of Thomas Hood" Hood's Own (1839) 551.
37.	1844  Leigh Hunt, in Imagination and Fancy (1844) 74-77.
38.	1845  George Gilfillan, "Charles Lamb" Gallery of Literary Portraits (1845) 338-45.
39.	1851  David Macbeth Moir, in Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the Past Half-Century (1851; 1852) 89-90.
40.	1854  Robert Shelton Mackenzie, Note in Noctes Ambrosianae, ed. Mackenzie (1854) 1:224n.
41.	1858  Cyrus Redding, in Fifty Years' Recollections (1858) 2:183-84.
42.	1862  Thomas Arnold, in A Manual of English Literature (1862; 1885) 445-46.
43.	1863  George Daniel, "Recollections of Charles Lamb" Love's Last Labour not Lost (1863) 3-30.
44.	1866  Bryan Waller Procter, in Charles Lamb: a Memoir (1866) 162-63.
45.	1871  S. C. Hall, "Charles Lamb" in A Book of Memories: Great Men and Women of the Age, from personal Acquaintance (1871) 51-61.
46.	1880  Edward Dowden, in The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions, ed. Thomas Humphry Ward (1880) 4:326-27.
47.	1882  Epes Sargent, in Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry (1882) 327.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Charles Lamb:

1.	1812  Stephen Jones, in Biographia Dramatica; or, A Companion to the Playhouse (1812) 1:443.
2.	1816  Anonymous, in Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors (1816) 194.
3.	1827  Charles Lamb, "An Autobiographical Sketch" 1827; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 1:320-21.
4.	1832  William Clarke and Robert Shelton Mackenzie, in The Georgian Era: Memoirs of the most eminent Persons who have flourished in Great Britain (1832-34) 3:580-81.
5.	1835  Anonymous, Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine NS 3 (March 1835) 325-26.
6.	1838  S. C. Hall, in The Book of Gems. The Modern Poets and Artists of Great Britain (1838) 72.
7.	1838  Henry Fothergill Chorley, "Charles Lamb" The Authors of England (1838) 71-76.
8.	1844  Robert Chambers, in Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844; 1850) 2:354-56.
9.	1876  Robert Carruthers, in Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature, 3rd ed. (1876; 1879) 5:189-93.
10.	1883  William Bates, after William Maginn; Maclise Gallery (1883; 1898) 290-300.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)

1.	1796  Rev. William Lisle Bowles:   Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 10 December 1796; Letters, ed. Thomas Noon Talfourd (1837) 1:53-54.
2.	1796  Samuel Taylor Coleridge:   Charles Lamb, "Lines addressed, from London, to Sara and S. T. C. at Bristol, in the Summer of 1796" The Monthly Magazine 3 (January 1797) 54-55.
3.	1796  William Cowper:   Charles Lamb, "To the Poet Cowper on his Recovery from an Indisposition" The Monthly Magazine 2 (December 1796) 889.
4.	1796  Thomas Dermody:   Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 9 December 1796; Letters, ed. Thomas Noon Talfourd (1837) 1:85-86.
5.	1796  Thomas James Mathias:   Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1796; Letters, ed. Thomas Noon Talfourd (1837) 1:33.
6.	1796  Francis Quarles:   Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1796; in Thomas Noon Talfourd, Final Memorials of Charles Lamb (1849) 31.
7.	1797  Samuel Taylor Coleridge:   Charles Lamb, "Sonnet to a Friend" The Monthly Magazine 4 (October 1797) 288.
8.	1797  Edward Fairfax:   Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 5 February 1797; in Thomas Noon Talfourd, Literary Sketches and Letters ... of Charles Lamb (1849) 53.
9.	1797  John Hoole:   Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 5 February 1797; Thomas Noon Talfourd, Literary Sketches and Letters ... of Charles Lamb (1849) 53.
10.	1799  Amos Cottle:   Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 9 October 1800; Letters, ed. Lucas (1935) 1:216.
11.	1800  Robert Burns:   Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 28 July 1800; Thomas Noon Talfourd, Literary Sketches and Letters ... of Charles Lamb (1849) 71.
12.	1800  Joseph Cottle:   Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 26 August 1800; Thomas Noon Talfourd, Literary Sketches and Letters ... of Charles Lamb (1849) 76.
13.	1800  George Dyer:   Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 14 August 1800; in Thomas Noon Talfourd, Final Memorials of Charles Lamb (1849) 67.
14.	1800  William Godwin:   Charles Lamb to Mr. Manning, 18 February 1800; Letters, ed. Thomas Noon Talfourd (1837) 1:150.
15.	1800  Andrew Marvell:   Charles Lamb to William Godwin, 14 December 1800; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 6:202.
16.	1800  William Melmoth:   Charles Lamb to Mr. Manning, 21 August 1800; Thomas Noon Talfourd, Literary Sketches and Letters ... of Charles Lamb (1849) 76-77.
17.	1800  Rev. William Wilkie:   Charles Lamb to Mr. Manning, 23 August 1800; in Thomas Noon Talfourd, Literary Sketches and Letters ... of Charles Lamb (1849) 75.
18.	1801  Sir James Mackintosh:   Charles Lamb to Mr. Manning, August 1801; Thomas Noon Talfourd, Literary Sketches and Letters ... of Charles Lamb (1849) 83.
19.	1802  Anna Laetitia Barbauld:   Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 23 October 1802; Letters, ed. Thomas Noon Talfourd (1837) 1:235-36.
20.	1802  George Chapman:   Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 23 October 1802; in Letters, ed. Thomas Noon Talfourd (1837) 1:236-37.
21.	1802  John Hookham Frere:   Charles Lamb, "Messrs. Canning and Frere" 1802; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 5:102.
22.	1802  Sir John Harington:   Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 11 October 1802; in Letters, ed. Thomas Noon Talfourd (1837) 1:240.
23.	1803  Charles Cotton:   Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 5 March 1803; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 6:262.
24.	1806  Charlotte Smith:   Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 26 June 1806; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 6:354.
25.	1806  William Wordsworth:   Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 1 February 1806; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 6:332-35.
26.	1808  William Congreve:   Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 26 February 1808; in Letters, ed. Thomas Noon Talfourd (1837) 1:305.
27.	1808  Michael Drayton:   Charles Lamb, in Characters of Dramatic Writers (1808); Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 1:45.
28.	1808  John Hawkesworth:   Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 26 February 1808; Letters, ed. Thomas Noon Talfourd (1837) 1:305.
29.	1808  Thomas Heywood:   Charles Lamb, in Specimens of Dramatic Poets (1808); Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 4:419n.
30.	1808  Cyril Tourneur:   Charles Lamb, in Specimens of Dramatic Poets (1808) in Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 4:160n.
31.	1809  Samuel Daniel:   Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 7 June 1809; in Thomas Noon Talfourd, Literary Sketches and Letters ... of Charles Lamb (1849) 104-05.
32.	1809  Rev. Christopher Pitt:   Charles Lamb to Charles Lloyd Senior, 31 July 1809; Letters, ed. Lucas (1935) 82.
33.	1812  Samuel Taylor Coleridge:   Charles Lamb, 17 January 1812, Henry Crabb Robinson, Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence (1870; 1872) 1:193.
34.	1812  Rev. Thomas Fuller:   Charles Lamb, "Specimens from the Writings of Fuller, the Church Historian" The Reflector 3 (1812) 342-48.
35.	1814  John Dennis:   Charles Lamb, in "On the Melancholy of Tailors" The Champion (4 December 1814); Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 1:175.
36.	1815  Rev. William Dodd:   Charles Lamb to Robert Southey, 9 August 1815; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 6:67.
37.	1815  Edward Thurlow:   Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 8 April 1815; Thomas Noon Talfourd, Literary Sketches and Letters ... of Charles Lamb (1849) 115.
38.	1816  Samuel Taylor Coleridge:   Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 26 April 1816; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 6:487.
39.	1818  Robert Burns:   Charles Lamb, in "George Wither" 1818; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 1:182.
40.	1820  Lord Byron:   Charles Lamb to Joseph Cottle, 26 May 1820; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 6:540-41.
41.	1820  John Payne Collier:   Charles Lamb to John Payne Collier, 16 May 1820; Letters, ed. Lucas (1935) 2:275.
42.	1820  George Dyer:   Charles Lamb, in "The Lion's Head" London Magazine 2 (December 1820) 595-96.
43.	1820  Barron Field:   Charles Lamb to Barron Field, 16 August 1820; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 542-43.
44.	1820  Leigh Hunt:   Charles Lamb, "To my Friend the Indicator" 1820; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 5:83.
45.	1820  Rev. Henry More:   Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1820; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 6:544.
46.	1820  Bryan Waller Procter:   Charles Lamb, "To the Author of Poems published under the Name of Barry Cornwall" London Magazine 2 (September 1820) 302.
47.	1822  John Clare:   Charles Lamb to John Clare, 31 August 1822; in Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 7:569-70.
48.	1822  William Drummond:   Charles Lamb, in "Detached Thoughts on Books" (1822); Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 2:174.
49.	1822  Alaric Alexander Watts:   Charles Lamb to Alaric Alexander Watts, 22 December 1822; Letters, ed. Lucas (1935) 2:355.
50.	1823  Bernard Barton:   Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, 9 January 1823; Barton, Memoir, Letters, and Poems (1850) 24-25.
51.	1823  Rev. Henry Francis Cary:   Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, 2 September 1823; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 7:619.
52.	1823  William Hazlitt:   Charles Lamb, in "Letter of Elia to Robert Southey, Esquire" London Magazine 8 (October 1823) 405.
53.	1823  Leigh Hunt:   Charles Lamb, in "Letter of Elia to Robert Southey, Esquire" London Magazine 8 (October 1823) 404.
54.	1823  Charles Lloyd:   Charles Lamb to Charles Lloyd, 1823; Letters, ed. Lucas (1935) 2:402.
55.	1823  John Scott of Amwell:   Charles Lamb, "Ritson versus John Scott the Quaker" London Magazine 7 (April 1823) 445-48.
56.	1823  Sir Philip Sidney:   Charles Lamb, "Nugae Criticae: Defence of the Sonnets of Sir Philip Sidney" London Magazine 8 (September 1823) 248-52.
57.	1823  Robert Southey:   Charles Lamb, "Letter of Elia to Robert Southey, Esquire" London Magazine 8 (October 1823) 400-07.
58.	1823  Robert Southey:   Charles Lamb to Robert Southey, 21 November 1823; Southey, Life and Correspondence (1849-50) 5:152-53.
59.	1823  Edward Thurlow:   Charles Lamb, in "Defence of the Sonnets of Sir Philip Sidney" London Magazine 8 (September 1823) 251n.
60.	1823  William Warner:   Charles Lamb to W. H. Ainsworth, 9 December 1823; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 7:630-31.
61.	1824  William Blake:   Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, 15 May 1824; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 7:642-43.
62.	1824  George Chapman:   Charles Lamb to Charles Abraham Elton, 17 August 1824?; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 7:650-51.
63.	1824  Charles Dibdin:   Charles Lamb to John Bates Dibdin, 28 July 1824; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 7:647.
64.	1824  Sir Charles Abraham Elton:   Charles Lamb to Charles Abraham Elton, 17 August 1824?; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 7:650-51.
65.	1824  Percy Bysshe Shelley:   Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, August 1824; Letters, ed. Thomas Noon Talfourd (1837) 2:159.
66.	1824  Horace Smith:   Charles Lamb to W. Marter, 19 July 1824; Letters, ed. Lucas (1935) 432.
67.	1826  Sir William Temple:   Charles Lamb, in "The Genteel Style of Writing" New Monthly Magazine (March 1826); Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 2:199.
68.	1827  Rev. George Croly:   Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, 1827; Letters, ed. Lucas (1935) 3:84.
69.	1827  Thomas Heywood:   Charles Lamb, in "Garrick Plays. No. X." William Hone, The Table Book 1 (1827) 385-86.
70.	1827  Rev. John Mitford:   Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, 1827; Letters, ed. Lucas (1935) 3:84-85.
71.	1827  George Peele:   Charles Lamb to Vincent Novello, 1827; in Letters, ed. Lucas (1935) 3:79.
72.	1828  Thomas Hood:   Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, 11 October 1828; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 7:780.
73.	1829  Henry James Pye:   Charles Lamb to Sarah James, 16 April 1829; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 7:806.
74.	1829  Samuel Rogers:   Charles Lamb, "To Samuel Rogers, Esq." 1829; Works (1847) 2:415.
75.	1831  Edward Moxon:   Charles Lamb to Peter George Patmore, 10 April 1831; Letters, ed. Lucas (1935) 3:307.
76.	1833  Rev. Robert Burton:   Charles Lamb in "Detached Thoughts on Books" Last Essays of Elia (1833); Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 2:174.
77.	1833  Edmond Malone:   Charles Lamb in "Detached Thoughts on Books" Last Essays (1833); Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 2:174.
78.	1833  Samuel Rogers:   Charles Lamb, "To T. Stothard, Esq. on his Illustrations of the Poems of Mr. Rogers" Athenaeum (21 December 1833) 871.
79.	1834  Samuel Taylor Coleridge:   Charles Lamb, "The Death of Coleridge" 1834; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 1:351-52.
80.	1834  Edward Phillips:   Charles Lamb to Mrs. George Dyer, 22 December 1834; R. W. King, The Translator of Dante (1925) 251.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(biography records)

1.	1827  Charles Lamb:   Charles Lamb, "An Autobiographical Sketch" 1827; Works of Charles Lamb, ed. Lucas (1903-05) 1:320-21.