Page 5, line 17. John Tipp.  John Lamb succeeded Tipp as Accountant somewhen about 1806.

Page 5, line 27. I know not, etc. This parenthesis was not in the London Magazine, but the following footnote was appended to the sentence:—­

“I have since been informed, that the present tenant of them is a Mr. Lamb, a gentleman who is happy in the possession of some choice pictures, and among them a rare portrait of Milton, which I mean to do myself the pleasure of going to see, and at the same time to refresh my memory with the sight of old scenes.  Mr. Lamb has the character of a right courteous and communicative collector.”

Mr. Lamb was, of course, John Lamb, or James Elia (see the essay “My Relations"), then (in 1820) Accountant of the South-Sea House.  He left the Milton to his brother.  It is now in America.

Page 6, line 5 from foot. Henry Man.  This was Henry Man (1747-1790), deputy-secretary of the South-Sea House from 1776, and an author of light trifles in the papers, and of one or two books.  The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of the late Henry Man was published in 1802, among the subscribers being three of the officials named in this essay—­John Evans, R. Plumer, and Mr. Tipp, and also Thomas Maynard, who, though assigned to the Stock Exchange, is probably the “childlike, pastoral M——­” of a later paragraph.  Small politics are for the most part kept out of Man’s volumes, which are high-spirited rather than witty, but this punning epigram (of which Lamb was an admirer) on Lord Spencer and Lord Sandwich may be quoted:—­

  Two Lords whose names if I should quote,
    Some folks might call me sinner: 
  The one invented half a coat,
    The other half a dinner.

  Such lords as these are useful men,
    Heaven sends them to console one;
  Because there’s now not one in ten,
    That can procure a whole one.

Page 7, line 13. Plumer.  Richard Plumer (spelled Plomer in the directories), deputy-secretary after Man.  Lamb was peculiarly interested in the Plumers from the fact that his grandmother, Mrs. Field, had been housekeeper of their mansion at Blakesware, near Ware (see notes to “Dream-Children” and “Blakesmoor in H——­shire").  The fine old Whig was William Plumer, who had been her employer, and was now living at Gilston.  He died in 1821.

The following passage from the memoir of Edward Cave (1691-1754), which Dr. Johnson wrote for the Gentleman’s Magazine (which Cave established) in 1754, shows that Lamb was mistaken about Plumer:—­