John Lamb (5)

Dear R., - My brother whom you have met at my rooms (a plump good-looking man of seven and forty!) has written a book about humanity, which I transmit to you herewith. Wilson the publisher has put it in his head that you can get it reviewed for him. I daresay it is not in the scope of your Review; but if you could put it in any likely train, he would rejoice. For alas! our boasted humanity partakes of vanity. As it is, he teases me to death with chusing to suppose that I !! who have been set show more up as a mark for them to throw at, and would willingly consign them all to hell flames and Megaera's snaky locks.
But here's the book - don't shew it Mrs. Collier, for I remember she makes excellent eel soup, and the leading points of the book are directed against that very process."
Yours truly,
C. Lamb (letter to Henry Crabb Robinson, Feb. 7, 1810. show less