um of Miss----._

This poem was first printed in _Blackwood's Magazine_, May, 1829,
entitled "For a Young Lady's Album." The identity of the young lady is
not now discoverable: probably a school friend of Emma Isola's.

Page 48. _In the Album of a very young Lady._

Josepha was a daughter of Mrs. Williams, of Fornham.

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Page 49. _In the Album of a French Teacher._

First printed in _Blackwood's Magazine,_ June, 1829, entitled "For the
Album of: Miss----, French Teacher at Mrs. Gisborn's School, Enfield."
Page 49. _In the Album of Miss Daubeny._

Miss Daubeny was a schoolfellow of Emma Isola's, at Dulwich.

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Page 50. _In the Album of Mrs. Jane Towers._

Charles Clarke--in line 7--was Charles Cowden Clarke (1787-1877), a
friend of the Lambs not only for his own sake, but for that of his wife,
Mary Victoria Novello, whom he married in 1828 and who died as recently
as 1898. Their _Recollections of Writers,_ 1878, have many interesting
reminiscences of Charles and Mary Lamb. Writing to Cowden Clarke on
February 25, 1828, Lamb says:--"I had a pleasant letter from your
sister, greatly over acknowledging my poor sonnet.... Alas for
sonnetting,'tis as the nerves are; all the summer I was dawdling among
green lanes, and verses came as thick as fancies. I am sunk winterly
below prose and zero."

Mrs. Towers lived at Standerwick, in Somersetshire, and was fairly well
known in her day as a writer of books for children, _The Children's
Fireside,_ etc.

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Page 50. _In my own Album._

This poem was first printed in _The Bijou,_ 1828, edited by William
Fraser, under the title "Verses for an Album."

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MISCELLANEOUS

Page 51. _Angel Help._

This poem was first printed in the _New Monthly Magazine,_ 1827, with
trifling differences, and the addition, at the end, of this couplet:--

Virtuous Poor Ones, sleep, sleep on,
And, waking, find your labours done.

I am afraid that the "Nonsense Verses" on page 123 represent an attempt
to make fun of this beautiful poem.

Aders' house in Euston Square was hung with engravings principally of
the German school (see the poem on page 94 addressed to him).

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Page 52. _The Christening._

These lines were first printed in _Blackwood's Magazi