(Good Friday, 1830):--"I do
assure you that your verses gratified me very much, and my sister is
quite _proud_ of them. For the first time in my life I congratulated
myself upon the shortness and meanness of my name. Had it been
Schwartzenberg or Esterhazy it would have put you to some puzzle."

Later in the same letter, referring to the present acrostic, he said
speaking of Harriet Isola, Emma's sister, she "blames my last verses as
being more written on _Mr._ Williams than on yourself; but how should I
have parted whom a Superior Power has brought together?"

Page 107. _To the Book_.

Written for the Album of Sophia Elizabeth Frend, afterwards the wife of
Augustus De Morgan, the mathematician (1806-1871), and mother of the
novelist Mr. William De Morgan. Her father was William Frend
(1757-1841), the reformer and a friend of Crabb Robinson and George
Dyer. The lines were printed in Mrs. De Morgan's _Three Score Years and
Ten_, as are also those that follow--"To S.F."

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Page 108. _To R Q._

From the Album of Rotha Quillinan.

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Page 109. _To S.L.... To M.L._

I have not been able to identify the Lockes. The J.F. of the last line
might be Jane Field. Copies of these poems are preserved at South
Kensington.

Page 109. _An Acrostic against Acrostics_.

Edward Hogg was a friend of Mr. Williams (see above). These verses were
first printed in _The Lambs_ by Mr. W.C. Hazlitt.

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Page 110. _On being Asked to Write in Miss Westwood's Album._

Frances Westwood was the daughter of the Westwoods, with whom the Lambs
were domiciled at Enfield Chase in 1829-1832. See letters to Gillman and
Wordsworth (November 30, 1829, and January 22, 1830) for description of
the Westwoods. The only son, Thomas Westwood, who died in 1888, and was
an authority on the literature of angling, contributed to _Notes and
Queries_ some very interesting reminiscences of the Lambs in those days.
This poem and that which follows it were sent to _Notes and Queries_ by
Thomas Westwood (June 4, 1870).

It is concerning these lines that Lamb writes to Barton, in 1827:--
"Adieu to Albums--for a great while--I said when I came here, and had
not been fixed two days, but my Landlord's daughter (not at the
Pot-house) requested me to write in her female friend's, and in her own.
If I go to ---- thou art there also,