The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 - The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb by Charles Lamb;Mary Lamb
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believed that to the increased attentiveness, which her parents'
infirmities called for by day and night, is to be attributed the present insanity of this ill-fated young woman. It has been stated in some of the Morning Papers, that she has an insane brother also in confinement--this is without foundation. The Jury of course brought in their Verdict, _Lunacy_. In the _Whitehall Evening Post_ the first part of the account is the same, but the end is as follows:-- The above unfortunate young person is a Miss Lamb, a mantua-maker, in Little Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. She has been, since, removed to Islington mad-house. Mr. Norris of the Blue-Coat School has been confounded with Randal Norris of the Inner Temple, another friend of the Lambs, but is not, I think, the same. The reference to the poetry and Coleridge's publication of it shows that Lamb had already been invited to contribute to the second edition of Coleridge's _Poems_. The words "and never" in the original have a line through them which might mean erasure, but, I think, does not. "Your own judgment..." Mrs. Coleridge had just become a mother: David Hartley Coleridge was born on September 19. This was Coleridge's reply to Lamb's letter, as given in Gillman's _Life of Coleridge_:-- |
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