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　　LETTER 260

　　CHARLES LAMB TO DOROTHY WORDSWORTH (Incomplete)

　　[May 25, 1820.]

　　Dear Miss W.—There can be none to whom the last volume of W. W. has come more welcome than to me. I have traced the Duddon in thought and with repetition along the banks (alas!) of the Lea—(unpoetical name); it is always flowing and murmuring and dashing in my ears. The story of Dion is divine—the genius of Plato falling on him like moonlight—the finest thing ever expressed. Then there is Elidure and Kirkstone Pass—the last not new to me—and let me add one of the sweetest of them all to me, The Longest Day. Loving all these as much as I can love poetry new to me, what could I wish or desire more or extravagantly in a new volume? That I did not write to W. W. was simply that he was to come so soon, and that flattens letters….

　　Yours,

　　C. L.

　　[I print from Professor Knight's text, in his Life of Wordsworth. Canon Ainger supplies omissions—a reference to Martin Burney's black eye.

　　The Wordsworths were in town this summer, to attend the wedding of Thomas Monkhouse and Miss Horrocks. We know from Crabb Robinson's Diary that they were at Lamb's on June 2: "Not much was said about his [W. W.'s] new volume of poems. But he himself spoke of the 'Brownie's Cell' as his favourite." The new volume was The River Duddon, a Series of Sonnets, … 1820. "The Longest Day" begins:—

　　Let us quit the leafy arbour.

　　Between this letter and the next Lamb wrote and sent off his first contribution to the London Magazine over the signature Elia—"The South-Sea House," which was printed in the number for August, 1820.] The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5