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First American Review of Charles Lamb

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

George Leonard Barnett
George Leonard Barnett*
Affiliation:
Indiana University
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Comment and Criticism
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PMLA , Volume 61 , Issue 2 , June 1946 , pp. 597 - 600
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1946

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References

1 The Letters of Charles Lamb, ed. E. V. Lucas (London, 1935), No. 944, iii, 365.

2 Lucas' statement that this letter contains the only reference to the intellectual activities of America is no longer correct. In a long letter written January 7, 1806, to Hazlitt (M. A. DeW. Howe, “Lamb to Hazlitt: A New-Found Letter,” the Spectator, clxi [Aug. 5, 1938], 237-238) Lamb refers to Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer, which Hazlitt had sent him, as “a very stupid uninteresting Book … perfectly disagreeable” and again “cold and chill and barren as Dr. Franklin's Golden rules or Poor John's Thoughts in an American almanac.”

3 x (No. 24), 187. Incidentally, a copy of this number is in the New York Public Library.

4 New York, 1835.

5 It was mistakenly included in Essays of Elia, second series, published in Philadelphia in 1828.