ge 93. _Lines addressed to Lieut. R.W.H. Hardy, R.N._

First printed in _The Athenaeum_, January 10, 1846, contributed by an
anonymous correspondent (probably Thomas Westwood the Younger) who sent
also "The First Leaf of Spring" (page 105). _Travels in the Interior of
Mexico in_ 1825 ... 1828, by Robert William Hale Hardy, was published in
1829. Lamb made an exception in favour of Hardy's book. Writing to Dilke
for something to read from _The Athenaum_ office, in 1833, he
particularly desired that "no natural history or useful learning, such
as Pyramids, Catacombs, Giraffes, or Adventures in Southern Africa"
might be sent.

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Page 94. _Lines for a Monument_....

First printed in _The Athenaeum_, November 5, 1831, and again in _The
Tatler_, Hunt's paper, December 31, 1831. In August, 1830, four sons and
two daughters of John and Ann Rigg, of York, were drowned in the Ouse.
Several literary persons were asked for inscriptions for the monument,
erected at York in 1831, and that by James Montgomery, of Sheffield, was
chosen. Lamb sent his verses to Vincent Novello, through whom he seems
to have been approached in the matter, on November 8, 1830, adding:
"Will these lines do? I despair of better. Poor Mary is in a deplorable
state here at Enfield."

Page 94. _To C. Aders, Esq_.

First printed in Hone's _Year Book_ (March 19), 1831 (see note to "Angel
Help," above).

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Page 95. _Hercules Pacificatus_.

First printed in the _Englishman's Magazine_, August, 1831. Suidas is
supposed to have lived in the tenth or eleventh century, and to have
compiled a _Lexicon_--a blend of biographical dictionary.

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Page 98. _The Parting Speech of the Celestial Messenger to the Poet_.

First printed in _The Athenaeum_, February 25, 1832.

Palingenius was an Italian poet of the sixteenth century, whose real
name was Pietro Angelo Mazolli, but who wrote in Latin under the name
of Marcellus Palingenius Stollatus. His _Zodiacus Vitae_, a
philosophical poem, was published in 1536.

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Page 99. _Existence, considered in itself, no Blessing_. First printed
in _The Athenaeum_, July 7, 1832.

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Page 100. _To Samuel Rogers, Esq., on the New Edition of his "Pleasures
of Memory."_

First printed in _The Times_, Dece