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Title: The works of Charles and Mary Lamb
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834 Lamb, Mary, 1764-1847 Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938 St. John, Cynthia Morgan, 1852-1919. fmo Wordsworth Collection
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Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam, London, Methuen
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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ot to 1826 HOLLINGDON RURAL CHURCH 709 have seen it. And rub up your Muse, the family Muse, and sendus a rhyme or so. Dont waste your wit upon that damnd DrySalter. I never knew but one Dry Salter, who could relish thosemellow effusions, and he broke. You knew Tommy Hill, thewettest of dry salters. Dry Salters, what a word for this thirstyweather ! I must drink after it. Heres to thee, my dear Dibdin,and to our having you again snug and well at Colebrooke. Butour nearest hopes are to hear again from you shortly. An epistleonly a quarter as agreeable as your last, would be a treat. Yours most truly C. Lamb. Timothy B. Dibdin, Esq.,No. 9, Blucher Row,Priory, Hastings. Note (Dibdin, who was in delicate health, had gone to Hastings torecruit, with a parcel of Lambs books for company. He seemsto have been lodged above the oven at a bakers. This lettercontains Lambs crowning description of HoUingdon Rural church(see also pages 617 and 648). I subjoin a cut of the building as itis to-day:—
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WWl;^^•^\J<11^^\^ 710 LETTERS OF C. AND M. LAMB July A Caledonian Chapel. Referring to the crowds that listenedto Irving (see note on page 661). A headless bear. From the rhyming abstract of melancholyprefixed to the Anatomy. Peter Fin. A character in Jones Peter Finns Trip toBrighton, 1822, as played by Liston. Tommy Hill. In the British Museum is preserved the fol-lowing brief note addressed to Mr. Thomas Hill—probably thesame. The date is between 1809 and 1817:— D« Sir It is necessary / see you sign^ can you step up tome 4 Inner Temple Lane this evening. I shall wait at home. Yours, C. Lamb. I have no notion to what the note refers. It is quite likely, Mr.J. A. Rutter suggests, that Hill the drysalter, a famous busybody,and a friend of Theodore Hook, stood for the portrait of Tom Pryin Lambs Lepus Papers (see Vol. I., page 498). S. C. Hall,in his Book of Memories^ says of Hill that his peculiar facultywas to find out what everybody did, from a minister of state

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