The Best Letters of Charles Lamb

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Best Letters of Charles Lamb Edited by Edward Gilpin JohnsonThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: The Best Letters of Charles LambAuthor: Charles LambEditor: Edward Gilpin JohnsonRelease Date: November 18, 2003 [EBook #10125]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BEST LETTERS OF CHARLES LAMB ***Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Keren Vergon, Sjaani, Tom Allen and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.LAUREL-CROWNED LETTERSCHARLES LAMBIt may well be that the "Essays of Elia" will be found to have kept their perfume, and the LETTERS OF CHARLES LAMBto retain their old sweet savor, when "Sartor Resartus" has about as many readers as Bulwer's "Artificial Changeling,"and nine tenths even of "Don Juan" lie darkening under the same deep dust that covers the rarely troubled pages of the"Secchia Rapita."A.C. SWINBURNENo assemblage of letters, parallel or kindred to that in the hands of the reader, if we consider its width of range, the fruitfulperiod over which it stretches, and its typical character, has ever been produced.W.C. HAZLITT ON LAMB'S LETTERS.THE BEST LETTERS OF CHARLES LAMBEdited with an IntroductionBY EDWARD GILPIN JOHNSONA.D. 1892.CONTENTSINTRODUCTIONLETTER I. ...