Chapter CCXC: Letter 555: Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon

[P.M. Jan. 3(1833).]

Be sure and let me have the Atheneum--or, if they don't appear, the Copy back again. I have no other.

I am glad you are introduced to Rickman, _cultivate the introduction_. I will not forget to write to him.

I want to see Blackwood, but _not without you_.

We are yet Emma-less.

And so that is all I can remember.

This is a corkscrew.

[_Here is a florid corkscrew._]

C. Lamb, born 1775
flourished about
the year 1832.

C.L. Fecit.--

[Lamb refers still to the "Barrenness of Imagination" series.

There are several scraps addressed by Lamb to Forster in the South Kensington Museum; but they are undated and of little importance. I append one or two here:--]