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　　LETTER 511

　　CHARLES LAMB TO JACOB VALE ASBURY

　　[April, 1830.]

　　Dear Sir—Some draughts and boluses have been brought here which we conjecture were meant for the young lady whom you saw this morning, though they are labelled for

　　MISS ISOLA LAMB.

　　No such person is known on the Chase Side, and she is fearful of taking medicines which may have been made up for another patient. She begs me to say that she was born an Isola and christened Emma. Moreover that she is Italian by birth, and that her ancestors were from Isola Bella (Fair Island) in the kingdom of Naples. She has never changed her name and rather mournfully adds that she has no prospect at present of doing so. She is literally I. SOLA, or single, at present. Therefore she begs that the obnoxious monosyllable may be omitted on future Phials,—an innocent syllable enough, you'll say, but she has no claim to it. It is the bitterest pill of the seven you have sent her. When a lady loses her good name, what is to become of her? Well she must swallow it as well as she can, but begs the dose may not be repeated.

　　Yours faithfully,

　　CHARLES LAMB (not Isola).

　　[Asbury was a doctor at Enfield. I append another letter to him, without date:—] The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6