Page 107. To the Book.

Written for the Album of Sophia Elizabeth Frend, afterwards the wife of Augustus De Morgan, the mathematician (1806-1871), and mother of the novelist Mr. William De Morgan.  Her father was William Frend (1757-1841), the reformer and a friend of Crabb Robinson and George Dyer.  The lines were printed in Mrs. De Morgan’s Three Score Years and Ten, as are also those that follow—­“To S.F.”

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Page 108. To R Q.

From the Album of Rotha Quillinan.

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Page 109. To S.L....  To M.L.

I have not been able to identify the Lockes.  The J.F. of the last line might be Jane Field.  Copies of these poems are preserved at South Kensington.

Page 109. An Acrostic against Acrostics.

Edward Hogg was a friend of Mr. Williams (see above).  These verses were first printed in The Lambs by Mr. W.C.  Hazlitt.

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Page 110. On being Asked to Write in Miss Westwood’s Album.

Frances Westwood was the daughter of the Westwoods, with whom the Lambs were domiciled at Enfield Chase in 1829-1832.  See letters to Gillman and Wordsworth (November 30, 1829, and January 22, 1830) for description of the Westwoods.  The only son, Thomas Westwood, who died in 1888, and was an authority on the literature of angling, contributed to Notes and Queries some very interesting reminiscences of the Lambs in those days.  This poem and that which follows it were sent to Notes and Queries by Thomas Westwood (June 4, 1870).

It is concerning these lines that Lamb writes to Barton, in 1827:—­ “Adieu to Albums—­for a great while—­I said when I came here, and had not been fixed two days, but my Landlord’s daughter (not at the Pot-house) requested me to write in her female friend’s, and in her own.  If I go to ——­ thou art there also, O all pervading Album!  All over the Leeward Islands, in Newfoundland, and the Back Settlements, I understand there is no other reading.  They haunt me.  I die of Albo-phobia!”

Page 111. Un Solitaire.

E.I., who made the drawing in question, would be Emma Isola.  The verses were copied by Lamb into his Album, which is now in the possession of Mrs. Alfred Morrison.

Page 111. To S[arah] T[homas].

From Lamb’s Album.  I have not been able to trace this lady.

Page 111. To Mrs. Sarah Robinson.

From the copy preserved among Henry Crabb Robinson’s papers at Dr. Williams’ Library.  Sarah Robinson was the niece of H.C.R., who was the pilgrim in Rome.  The stranger to thy land was Emma Isola, Fornham, in Suffolk, where she was living, being near to Bury St. Edmunds, the home of the Robinsons.

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Page 112. To Sarah.