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From the death of his mother to mid- 1797 was a desolate period, in which Lamb clung to Coleridge’s religion and Coleridge’s married happiness as if to make these a sustaining part of himself. He spent long hours writing to Coleridge in the office or while his senile father dozed, pouring out his worries and hopes without self-pity. The letters concentrate on the practical and poetic matters that would interest Coleridge. Coleridge, to his everlasting credit, supported Lamb manfully from the midst of a thousand distractions.’ And through Coleridge he made two new friends, the Jacobin John Thelwall and the young Quaker poet Charles Lloyd.
… pray, pray, write to me: ifyou knew with what an anxiety of joy I open such a long packet as you last sent me, you would not grudge giving a few minutes now & then to this intercourse (the only intercourse, I fear we two shall ever have) this conversation with your friend—such I boast to be called. Lamb to Coleridge, 1 December 1796 (M 167)
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Courtney, W.F. (1982). Loneliness. In: Young Charles Lamb 1775–1802. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05992-8_10
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