Mrs. Sergeant Wilde, _née_ Wileman, was the first wife of Thomas Wilde, afterwards Lord Truro (1782-1855), for whose election at Newark in 1831 Lamb is said to have written facetious verses (see my large edition). The Wildes were Lamb's neighbours at Enfield. * * * * * Page 47. _In the Album of Lucy Barton._ These lines were sent by Lamb to Lucy Barton's father, Bernard Barton, the Quaker poet, in the letter of September 30, 1824. Lucy Barton, who afterwards became the wife of Edward FitzGerald, the translator of Omar Khayyam, lived until November 27, 1898. She retained her faculties almost to the end, and in 1892 kindly wrote out for me her memory of a visit paid with her father to the Lambs at Colebrook Row about 1825--a little reminiscence first printed in _Bernard Barton and His Friends,_ 1893. * * * * * Page 48. _In the Album of Miss----._ This poem was first printed in _Blackwood's Magazine_, May, 1829, entitled "For a Young Lady's Album." The identity of the young lady is not now discoverable: probably a school friend of Emma Isola's. Page 48. _In the Album of a very young Lady._ Josepha was a daughter of Mrs. Williams, of Fornham. * * * * * Page 49. _In the Album of a French Teacher._ First printed in _Blackwood's Magazine,_ June, 1829, entitled "For the Album of: Miss----, French Teacher at Mrs. Gisborn's School, Enfield." Page 49. _In the Album of Miss Daubeny._ Miss Daubeny was a schoolfellow of Emma Isola's, at Dulwich. * * * * * Page 50. _In the Album of Mrs. Jane Towers._ Charles Clarke--in line 7--was Charles Cowden Clarke (1787-1877), a friend of the Lambs not only for his own sake, but for that of his wife, Mary Victoria Novello, whom he married in 1828 and who died as recently as 1898. Their _Recollections of Writers,_ 1878, have many interesting reminiscences of Charles and Mary Lamb. Writing to Cowden Clarke on February 25, 1828, Lamb says:--"I had a pleasant letter from your sister, greatly over acknowledging my poor sonnet.... Alas for sonnetting,'tis as the nerves are; all the summer I was dawdling among green lanes, and verses came as thick as fancies. I am sunk winterly below prose and zero." Mrs. Towers lived at Standerwick, in Somersetshire, and was fairly well known in her day as a writer of books for children, _The Children's Fireside,_ etc. * * * * * Page 50. _In my own Album._ This poem was first printed in _The Bijou,_ 1828, edited by William Fraser, under the title "Verses for an Album." * * * * * MISCELLANEOUS Page 51. _Angel Help._ This poem was first printed in the _New Monthly Magazine,_ 1827, with trifling differences, and the addition, at the end, of this couplet:-- Virtuous Poor Ones, sleep, sleep on, And, waking, find your labours done.