Page 56, line 13. A very dear friend.  Barren Field (see the essay on
“Distant Correspondents").

Page 56, line 10 from foot. My friend M.  Thomas Manning (1772-1840), the mathematician and traveller, and Lamb’s correspondent.

Page 56, last line. “On Devon’s leafy shores.”  From Wordsworth’s Excursion, III.

Page 57, line 16. Daily jaunts.  Though Lamb was then (1821) living at 20 Great Russell Street, Covent Garden, he rented rooms at 14 Kingsland Row, Dalston, in which to take holidays and do his literary work undisturbed.  At that time Dalston, which adjoins Shackleton, was the country and Kingsland Green an open space opposite Lamb’s lodging.

Page 58, line 23. The North Pole Expedition.  This would probably be Sir John Franklin’s expedition which set out in 1819 and ended in disaster, the subject of Franklin’s book, Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the years 1819, 20, 21, 22 (1823).  Sir John Ross made an expedition in 1818, and Sir William Edward Parry in 1819, and again in 1821-1823 with Lyon.  The panorama was possibly at Burford’s Panorama in the Strand, afterwards moved to Leicester Square.

Page 60, line 17. Tractate on Education.  Milton’s Tractate on Education, addressed to his friend, Samuel Hartlib, was published in 1644.  The quotation above is from that work.  This paragraph of Lamb’s essay was afterwards humorously expanded in his “Letter to an Old Gentleman whose Education has been Neglected” (see Vol.  I.).

Page 60, last line. Mr. Bartley’s Orrery. George Bartley (1782?-1858), the comedian, lectured on astronomy and poetry at the Lyceum during Lent at this time.  An orrery is a working model of the solar system.  The Panopticon was, I assume, a forerunner of the famous Panopticon in Leicester Square.

Page 61, line 8. “Plaything for an hour.”  A quotation, from Charles and Mary Lamb’s Poetry for Children—­“Parental Recollections":—­

  A child’s a plaything for an hour.

Page 63, end of essay. “Can I reproach her for it.”  After these words, in the London Magazine, came:—­

    “These kind of complaints are not often drawn from me.  I am aware
    that I am a fortunate, I mean a prosperous man.  My feelings
    prevent me from transcribing any further.”

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Page 63.  VALENTINE’S DAY.

This essay first appeared in The Examiner, February 14 and 15, 1819, and again in The Indicator, February 14, 1821.  Signed ***

Page 64, line 18. Twopenny postman. Hone computed, in his Every-Day Book, Vol.  I., 1825, that “two hundred thousand letters beyond the usual daily average annually pass through the two-penny post-office in London on Valentine’s Day.”  The Bishop’s vogue is now (1911) almost over.