Page 29, line 12. Comberbatch.  Coleridge, who had enlisted as a young man in the 15th Light Dragoons as Silas Titus Comberback.

Page 29, line 16. Bloomsbury.  Lamb was then in rooms at 20 Great Russell Street (now Russell Street), Covent Garden, which is not in Bloomsbury.

Page 29, line 27. Should he go on acting.  The Letters contain references to this habit of Coleridge’s.  Writing to him in 1809 Lamb says, referring among other loans to the volume of Dodsley with Vittoria Corombona ("The White Devil,” by John Webster) in it:—­“While I think on it, Coleridge, I fetch’d away my books which you had at the Courier Office, and found all but a third volume of the old plays, containing the ’White Devil, ’Green’s ‘Tu Quoque,’ and the ’Honest Whore,’ perhaps the most valuable volume of them all—­that I could not find.  Pray, if you can, remember what you did with it, or where you took it out with you a walking perhaps; send me word, for, to use the old plea, it spoils a set.  I found two other volumes (you had three), the Arcadia and Daniel, enriched with manuscript notes.  I wish every book I have were so noted.  They have thoroughly converted me to relish Daniel, or to say I relish him, for after all, I believe I did relish him.”

And several years later (probably in 1820) we find him addressing Coleridge with reference to Luther’s Table Talk:—­“Why will you make your visits, which should give pleasure, matter of regret to your friends?  You never come but you take away some folio, that is part of my existence.  With a great deal of difficulty I was made to comprehend the extent of my loss.  My maid, Becky, brought me a dirty bit of paper, which contained her description of some book which Mr. Coleridge had taken away.  It was Luster’s Tables, which, for some time, I could not make out.  ’What! has he carried away any of the tables, Becky?’ ’No, it wasn’t any tables, but it was a book that he called Luster’s Tables.’  I was obliged to search personally among my shelves, and a huge fissure suddenly disclosed to me the true nature of the damage I had sustained.”

Allsop tells us that Lamb once said of Coleridge:  “He sets his mark upon whatever he reads; it is henceforth sacred.  His spirit seems to have breathed upon it; and, if not for its author, yet for his sake, we admire it.”

Page 30, line 1. John Buncle.  Most of Lamb’s books are in America; Lamb’s copy of John Buncle, with an introductory note written in by Coleridge, was sold, with other books from his library, in New York in 1848. The Life of John Buncle, Esq., a book highly praised by Hazlitt, was by Thomas Amory (1691?-1788), published, Part I. in 1756 and Part II. in 1766.  A condensed reprint was issued in 1823 entitled The Spirit of Buncle, in which, Mr. W.C.  Hazlitt suggests, Lamb may have had a hand with William Hazlitt.