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　　LETTER 298

　　CHARLES LAMB TO THOMAS ROBINSON

　　[Dated at end: Nov. 11, 1822.]

　　Dear Sir, We have to thank you, or Mrs. Robinson— for I think her name was on the direction—for the best pig, which myself, the warmest of pig-lovers, ever tasted. The dressing and the sauce were pronounced incomparable by two friends, who had the good fortune to drop in to dinner yesterday, but I must not mix up my cook's praises with my acknowledgments; let me but have leave to say that she and we did your pig justice. I should dilate on the crackling—done to a turn—but I am afraid Mrs. Clarkson, who, I hear, is with you, will set me down as an Epicure. Let it suffice, that you have spoil'd my appetite for boiled mutton for some time to come. Your brother Henry partook of the cold relics—by which he might give a good guess at what it had been hot.

　　With our thanks, pray convey our kind respects to Mrs. Robinson, and the Lady before mentioned.

　　Your obliged Ser't

　　CHARLES LAMB.

　　India House

　　11 Nov. 22.

　　[This letter is addressed to R. Robinson, Esq., Bury, Suffolk, but I think there is no doubt that Thomas Robinson was the recipient.

　　Thomas Robinson of Bury St. Edmunds was Henry Crabb Robinson's brother. Lamb's "Dissertation on Roast Pig" had been printed in the London Magazine in September, 1822, and this pig was one of the first of many such gifts that came to him.] The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6