SKETCHES AND LETTERS: BEING THE FINAL MEMORIALS OF CHARLES LAMB, NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. BY THOMAS NOON TALFOURD, ONE OF HIS EXECUTORS. NEW-YORK: D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 200 BROADWAY. PHILADELPHIA: GEO. S. APPLETON, 148 CHESNUT-STREET. MDCCCXLVIII. ΤΟ WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, Esq., D. C. L., POET LAUREATE, THESE FINAL MEMORIALS OF ONE WHO CHERISHED HIS FRIENDSHIP AS A COMFORT AMIDST GRIEFS, AND A GLORY AMIDST DEPRESSIONS, ARE, WITH AFFECTION AND RESPECT, Enscribed BY ONE WHOSE PRIDE IS TO HAVE BEEN IN OLD TIME HIS EARNEST ADMIRER, AND ONE OF WHOSE FONDEST WISHES IS THAT HE MAY BE LONG SPARED TO ENJOY FAME, RARELY ACCORDED TO THE LIVING. |