Barry Cornwall was the pen-name of Bryan Waller Procter, 1787-1874, whose impulse to write poetry came largely from Lamb himself. In his _Dramatic Scenes_, 1819, was the beginning of a blank-verse treatment or adaptation of Lamb's "Rosamund Gray." Procter addressed to Lamb some excellent lines "Over a Flask of Sherris," which were printed in the _London Magazine_, 1825, and again in _English Songs_, 1832. His _Martian Colonna; an Italian Tale_, was published in 1820 and his _Sicilian Story_ later in the same year. The "Dream" was printed in _Dramatic Scenes_. Procter in his old age wrote a charming memoir of Lamb. * * * * * Page 62. _To R.S. Knowles, Esq_. First printed in the _London Magazine_, September, 1820. By a curious oversight the error in Knowles's initials was repeated in the _Album Verses_, 1830, Knowles's first name being, of course, James. James Sheridan Knowles (1784-1862) had been a doctor, a schoolmaster, an actor, and a travelling elocutionist, before he took seriously to writing for the stage. His first really successful play was "Virginius," written for Edmund Kean, transferred to Macready, and produced in 1820. His greatest triumph was "The Hunchback," 1832. Lamb, who met Knowles through William Hazlitt, of Wem, the essayist's father, wrote both the prologue and epilogue for Knowles's play "The Wife," 1833 (see pages 146-7). * * * * * Page 63. _Quatrains to the Editor of the "Every-Day Book_." First printed in the _London Magazine_, May, 1825, and copied by Hone into the _Every-Day Book_ for July 9 of the same year. William Hone (see Vol. I. notes), 1780-1842, was a bookseller, pamphleteer and antiquary, who, before he took to editing his _Every-Day Book_ in 1825, had passed through a stormy career on account of his critical outspokenness and want of ordinary political caution; and Lamb did by no means a fashionable thing when he commended Hone thus publicly. The _Every-Day Book_, begun in 1825, was, when published in 1826, dedicated by Hone to Charles Lamb and his sister. "Your daring to publish me your 'friend,' with your 'proper name' annexed," Hone wrote, "I shall never forget." Page 63. Acrostics.