O all pervading Album! All over the
Leeward Islands, in Newfoundland, and the Back Settlements, I understand
there is no other reading. They haunt me. I die of Albo-phobia!"

Page 111. _Un Solitaire._

E.I., who made the drawing in question, would be Emma Isola. The verses
were copied by Lamb into his Album, which is now in the possession of
Mrs. Alfred Morrison.

Page 111. _To S[arah] T[homas]_.

From Lamb's Album. I have not been able to trace this lady.

Page 111. _To Mrs. Sarah Robinson._

From the copy preserved among Henry Crabb Robinson's papers at Dr.
Williams' Library. Sarah Robinson was the niece of H.C.R., who was the
pilgrim in Rome. The stranger to thy land was Emma Isola, Fornham, in
Suffolk, where she was living, being near to Bury St. Edmunds, the home
of the Robinsons.

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Page 112. _To Sarah._

From the Album of Sarah Apsey. Lamb seems to have known very many
Sarahs.

Page 112. _To Joseph Vale Asbury._

From Lamb's Album. Jacob (not Joseph, as Lamb supposed) Vale Asbury was
the Lambs' doctor at Enfield. There are extant two amusing letters from
Lamb to Asbury.

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Page 113. _To D.A._

From Lamb's Album. Dorothy Asbury, the wife of the doctor.

Page 113. _To Louisa Morgan._

From Lamb's Album. Louisa Morgan was probably the daughter of
Coleridge's friend, John Morgan, of Calne, in Wiltshire, with whom the
Lambs stayed in 1817--the same Morgan--"Morgan demigorgon"--who ate
walnuts better than any man Lamb knew, and munched cos-lettuce like a
rabbit (see letters to Coleridge in August, 1814). Southey and Lamb each
allowed John Morgan L10 a year in his old age and adversity, beginning
with 1819.

Page 113. _To Sarah James of Beguildy._

Sarah James was Mary Lamb's nurse, and the sister of the Mrs. Parsons
with whom she lived during the last years of her life. Miss James was
the daughter of the rector of Beguildy, in Shropshire. The verses are
reprinted from _My Lifetime_ by the late John Hollingshead, who was the
great-nephew of Miss James and Mrs. Parsons.

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Page 114. _To Emma Button._

Included in a letter from Lamb to John Aitken, editor of _The Cabinet_,
July 5, 1825.

Page 114. _Written upon the cover of a blotting book. The Mirror,_ May
7, 1836.

Identified by Mr. Walter Jerrold. First collected by Mr. Thomas
Hutchinson.