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...Lamb, the frolic and the gentle...
...CHARLES LAMB AND HIS FRIENDS-Will D. Howe-Bobbs-Merrill...
Thus, in his Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg, Poet William Wordsworth solemnized the deaths of Poet-Critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Essayist Charles Lamb. Inhabitants of London's historic Inner Temple saw Lamb in a somewhat different context. Sometimes the door of his house near the Thames would open, and out would come Essayist Lamb and his sister Mary, carrying a strait jacket, and quietly crying. All Inner Temple Lane knew that meant that Mary was about to go insane again, and that Charles was taking her to the safety of the local asylum. They also...
...worked as a clerk in the East India Company, totting up sales figures for tea, indigo, silks and spices. Neighbors used to set their watches when his tiny figure emerged in the morning. Dressed in black, his spindly legs sheathed in Chinese silk stockings, and carrying a green umbrella, Lamb walked placidly to work. He "looked no one in the face for more than a moment, yet contrived to see everything." Perched on his high office stool, he mailed, at the East India Company's expense, the numerous letters written by his youthful friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor...
...much a part of war as death & taxes. Fifty million men in the world have left the fields and factories to fight, but still the U.S. stoutly held to the fiction that a high standard of diet can be preserved in wartime. Restaurants served juicy steaks and thick lamb chops; butcher shops were well stocked with pork roasts; the egg market groaned under such a flood of eggs that the War Food Administration, to support the price, bought eggs by the carload...