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　　LETTER 320

　　CHARLES LAMB TO JOHN BATES DIBDIN

　　[P.M. May 6, 1823.]

　　Dear Sir—Your verses were very pleasant, and I shall like to see more of them—I do not mean addressed to me.

　　I do not know whether you live in town or country, but if it suits your convenience I shall be glad to see you some evening— say Thursday—at 20 Great Russell Street, Cov't Garden. If you can come, do not trouble yourself to write. We are old fashiond people who drink tea at six, or not much later, and give cold mutton and pickle at nine, the good old hour. I assure you (if it suit you) we shall be glad to see you.—

　　Yours, etc. C. LAMB.

　　E.I.H., Tuesday, My love to Mr. Railton.

　　Some day of May 1823. The same to Mr. Rankin,

　　Not official. to the whole Firm indeed.

　　[The verses are not, I fear, now recoverable. Dibdin's firm was Railton, Rankin & Co., in Old Jury.

　　Here should come a letter from Lamb to Hone, dated May 19, 1823. William Hone (1780-1842), who then, his stormy political days over, was publishing antiquarian works on Ludgate Hill, had sent Lamb his Ancient Mysteries Described, 1823. Lamb thanks him for it, and invites him to 14 Kingsland Row, Dalston, the next Sunday: "We dine exactly at 4."] The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6