Cornwall, Barry, [pseud.], 1787-1874 / 2008-08-01 00:00:00
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CHARLES LAMB
A Memoir
BY BARRY CORNWALL
PREFACE.
In my seventy-seventh year. I have been invited to place on record my
recollections of Charles Lamb.
I am, I believe, nearly the only man now surviving who knew much of the
excellent "Elia." Assuredly I knew him more intimately than any other
existing person, during the last seventeen or eighteen years of his life.
In this predicament, and because I am proud to associate my name with his,
I shall endeavor to recall former times, and to bring my old friend before
the eyes of a new generation.
I request the "courteous reader" to accept, for what they are worth, these
desultory labors of a lover of letters; and I hope that the advocate for
modern times will try to admit into the circle of his sympathy my
recollections of a fine Genius departed.
No harm--possibly some benefit--will accrue to any one who may consent to
extend his acquaintance to one of the rarest and most delicate of the
Humorists of England.
B. W. PROCTER.
_May_, 1866.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
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