Carel Lyn Miske, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
CHARLES LAMB
A Memoir
BY BARRY CORNWALL
PREFACE.
In my seventy-seventh year. I have been invited to place on record my
recollections of Charles Lamb.
I am, I believe, nearly the only man now surviving who knew much of the
excellent "Elia." Assuredly I knew him more intimately than any other
existing person, during the last seventeen or eighteen years of his life.
In this predicament, and because I am proud to associate my name with his,