As a matter of fact Miss Kelly did afterwards play in Morton’s “Children in the Wood,” to Lamb’s great satisfaction.  The incident of the roast fowl is in that play.

In Vol.  I. will be found more than one eulogy of Miss Kelly’s acting.

Page 231, last line. Real hot tears.  In Crabb Robinson’s diary Miss Kelly relates that when, as Constance, in “King John,” Mrs. Siddons (not Mrs. Porter) wept over her, her collar was wet with Mrs. Siddons’ tears.  Miss Kelly, of course, was playing Arthur.

Page 232, line 7. Impediment ... pulpit.  This is more true than the casual reader may suppose.  Had Lamb not had an impediment in his speech, he would have become, at Christ’s Hospital, a Grecian, and have gone to one of the universities; and the ordinary fate of a Grecian was to take orders.

Page 232, line 13. Mr. Liston.  Mrs. Cowden Clarke says that Liston the comedian and his wife were among the visitors to the Lambs’ rooms at Great Russell Street.

Page 232, line 14. Mrs. Charles Kemble, nee Maria Theresa De Camp, mother of Fanny Kemble.

Page 232, line 16. Macready.  The only record of any conference between Macready and Lamb is Macready’s remark in his Diary that he met Lamb at Talfourd’s, and Lamb said that he wished to draw his last breath through a pipe, and exhale it in a pun.  But this was long after the present essay was written.

Page 232, line 17. Picture Gallery ...  Mr. Matthews.  See note below.

Page 232, line 26. Not Diamond’s.  Dimond was the proprietor of the old Bath Theatre.

Page 235, first line. Mrs. Crawford.  Anne Crawford (1734-1801), nee Street, who was born at Bath, married successively a Mr. Dancer, Spranger Barry the actor, and a Mr. Crawford.  Her great part was Lady Randolph in Home’s “Douglas.”

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Page 235.  THE TOMBS IN THE ABBEY.

London Magazine, October, 1823, where, with slight differences, it formed the concluding portion of the “Letter of Elia to Robert Southey, Esquire,” which will be found in Vol.  I. The notes in that volume should be consulted; but a little may be said here.  This, the less personal portion of the “Letter to Southey,” seems to have been all that Lamb cared to retain.  He admitted afterwards, when his anger against Southey had cooled, that his “guardian angel” had been “absent” at the time he wrote it.

The Dean of Westminster at the time was Ireland, the friend of Gifford—­dean from 1815 to 1842.  Lamb’s protest against the two-shilling fee was supported a year or so later than its first appearance by Reynolds, in Odes and Addresses, 1825, in a sarcastic appeal to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster to reduce that sum.  The passage in Lamb’s essay being reprinted in 1833, suggests that the reform still tarried.  The evidence, however, of J.T.  Smith, in his Book for a Rainy Day, is that it was possible in 1822 to enter Poets’ Corner for sixpence.  Dean Stanley, in his Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey, writes:  “Free admission was given to the larger part of the Abbey under Dean Ireland.  Authorised guides were first appointed in 1826, and the nave and transepts opened, and the fees lowered in 1841....”