erhaps we may leave them out, retaining the article, but that
is not worth saving. I hope you liked my Cervantes Article which I sent
you yesterday.

Not an inapt quotation, for your fallen predecessor in Albemarle Street,
to whom you must give the _coup du main_--

Murray, long enough his country's pride.

_Pope._

[_Then, written at the bottom of the page_] there's [_and written on the
next page_] there's nothing over here.

[Moxon was moving from 64 New Bond Street to 33 Dover Street.

"Silk Cloak" would, I imagine, probably be a name for Emma Isola.

"The Sonnets of Sydney"--Lamb's _Elia_ essay on this subject. It was not
omitted from the _Last Essay_, which Moxon was to publish, and eleven
sonnets were quoted.

"Your fallen predecessor." It is hardly needful to say that Moxon made
very little difference to Murray's business. The line is from Pope's
Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace. To Mr. Murray, who afterwards
was Earl of Mansfield.]

LETTER 560

CHARLES LAMB TO EDWARD MOXON

[Feb. 10. P.M. Feby. 11, 1833.]

I wish you would omit "by the author of Elia," _now_, in advertising
that damn'd "Devil's Wedding."

I had sneaking hopes you would have dropt in today--tis my poor
birthday. Don't stay away so. Give Forster a hint--you are to bring your
brother some day--_sisters_ in better weather.

Pray give me one line to say if you receiv'd and forwarded Emma's
pacquet to Miss Adams,

and how Dover St. looks.

Adieu.

Is there no Blackwood this month?

[_Added on cover_:--]

What separation will there be between the friend's preface, and THE
ESSAYS? Should not "Last Essays &c." head them? If 'tis too late, don't
mind. I don't care a farthing about it.

["What separation"--the _Last Essays of Elia_ were preceded by "A
Character of the Late Elia."

Here should come a letter from Lamb to Louisa Badams, dated February 15,
1833. Lamb begins with a further reference to the Enfield murder. He
says that his sister and himself have got through the _Inferno_ with the
help of Cary, and Mary is beginning Tasso.]

LETTER 561

CHARLES LAMB TO EDWARD MOXON

[No date. Feb., 1833.]

My dear M.--I send you the last proof--not of my friendship-- pray see
to the finish.

I think you will see the necessity of adding those words after
"Preface"--and "Preface" should be in the "contents-table"--

I take for granted you approve the title. I do thoroughly-- Perhaps if
you