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was preparing, I understood, for Mr. Irving. Poor fellow! it is time he
removed from Pentonville. I followed him as far as to Highbury the other
day, with a mob at his heels, calling out upon Ermigiddon, who I suppose
is some Scotch moderator. He squinted out his favourite eye last Friday,
in the fury of possession, upon a poor woman's shoulders that was crying
matches, and has not missed it. The companion truck, as far as I could
measure it with my eye, would conveniently fit a person about the length
of Coleridge, allowing for a reasonable drawing up of the feet, not at
all painful. Does he talk of moving this quarter? You and I have too
much sense to trouble ourselves with revelations; marry, to the same in
Greek you may have something professionally to say. Tell C. that he was
to come and see us some fine day. Let it be before he moves, for in his
new quarters he will necessarily be confined in his conversation to his
brother prophet. Conceive the two Rabbis foot to foot, for there are no
Gamaliels there to affect a humbler posture! All are masters in that
Patmos, where the law is perfect equality--Latmos, I should rather say,
for they will be Luna's twin darlings; her affection will be ever at the
full. Well; keep _your_ brains moist with gooseberry this mad March, for
the devil of exposition seeketh dry places.

C.L.

[The letter is assigned to the Rev. James Gillman by some editors; but I
think that a mistake. See the reference below to a medical matter.
Battin was interested in the Spitalfields weavers to the detriment of
the Norwich.

Major Butterworth in a letter to _Notes and Queries_, March 24, 1906,
thus explains the reference to Battin:--

"In lately going over the pages of _The New Monthly Magazine_ for
1826 I came across a paragraph in the June number, extracted from a
daily newspaper, in which the following occurs: 'Great merit is due
to Mr. Lamb junior for his exertions to relieve the weavers of
Norwich.'...

"As his 'Reminiscences of Juke Judkins, Esq.,' was printed in the
same number of the _Magazine_, Lamb's attention would no doubt be
arrested by the remarks about his namesake, which would probably be
retained in his memory, to be used subsequently, as occasion served,
in mystifying his friend."

Tuthill, whom we have met, was one of the physicians at St. Luke's
Hospital for the insane.

"He squinted out...." Irving had si