F. . . . " 49 [25] Favell;
left Camb’rg because he was
asham’d
of his father, who was a
house-painter
there.
Fr. . . " 50 [26] Franklin, Gramr. Mast., Hertford.
T. . . " 50 [26] Marmaduke Thompson.
K. . . " 59 [30] Kenney,
Dramatist. Author of
Raising
Wind, &c.
S.T.C. . . " 60 [31] Samuel
Taylor Coleridge. [Not in
Lamb’s
autograph.]
Alice W——n . " 63 [32] Feigned (Winterton).
*** . . " 64 [32] No Meaning.
**** . . " 64 [32] No Meaning.
*** . . " 64 [32] No Meaning.
Mrs. S. . . " 87 [44] Mrs. Spinkes.
R. . . . " 98 [50] Ramsay,
London Library, Ludg. St.;
now
extinct.
Granville S. . " 98 [50] Granville
Sharp. [Not in Lamb’s
autograph.]
E.B. . . " 130 [65] Edward
Burney, half-brother of Miss
Burney.
B. . . . " 141 [71] Braham, now a Xtian.
*********** . " 170 [85] Distrest Sailors.
J——ll. . " 195 [97] Jekyll.
Susan P. . " 198 [99] Susan Peirson.
R.N. . . " 206 [103] Randal Norris, Subtreasr, Inner Temple.
C. . . . " 216 [108] Coleridge.
F. . . . " 222 [111] Field.
B.F. . . " 238 [118] Baron Field, brother of Frank.
Lord C. . " 243 [121] Lord Camelford.
Sally W——r . " 248 [123] Sally Winter.
J.W. . . " 248 [123] Jas.
White, author of Falstaff’s
Letters.
St. L. . . " 268 [133] No meaning.
B., Rector of —— " 268 [133] No meaning.
The London Magazine, with John Scott (1783-1821) as its editor was founded in 1820 by Baldwin, Cradock & Joy. Its first number was dated January, 1820, and Lamb’s first contribution was in the number for August, 1820. Lamb had known Scott as editor of The Champion in 1814, but, according to Talfourd, it was Hazlitt who introduced Lamb to the London Magazine.
John Scott, who was the author of two interesting books of travel, A Visit to Paris in 1814 and Paris Re-visited in 1815, was an admirable editor, and all was going exceedingly well until he plunged into a feud with Blackwood’s Magazine in general, and John Gibson Lockhart in particular, the story of which in full may be read in Mr. Lang’s Life and Letters of Lockhart, 1896. In the duel which resulted Scott was shot above the hip. The wound was at first thought lightly of, but Scott died on February 27, 1821—an able man much regretted.