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　　LETTER 305

　　CHARLES LAMB TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

　　[No date. January, 1823.]

　　Dear Wordsworth, I beg your acceptance of ELIA, detached from any of its old companions which might have been less agreeable to you. I hope your eyes are better, but if you must spare them, there is nothing in my pages which a Lady may not read aloud without indecorum, which is more than can be said of Shakspeare.

　　What a nut this last sentence would be for Blackwood!

　　You will find I availed myself of your suggestion, in curtailing the dissertation on Malvolio.

　　I have been on the Continent since I saw you.

　　I have eaten frogs.

　　I saw Monkhouse tother day, and Mrs. M. being too poorly to admit of company, the annual goosepye was sent to Russell Street, and with its capacity has fed "A hundred head" (not of Aristotle's) but "of Elia's friends."

　　Mrs. Monkhouse is sadly confined, but chearful.—

　　This packet is going off, and I have neither time, place nor solitude for a longer Letter.

　　Will you do me the favor to forward the other volume to Southey?

　　Mary is perfectly well, and joins me in kindest rememb'ces to you all.

　　[Signature cut away.]

　　["What a nut… for Blackwood." To help on Maga's great cause against Cockney arrogance.

　　"The dissertation on Malvolio." In Elia the essays on the Old Actors were much changed and rearranged (see Appendix to Vol. II. in this edition).] The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6