First printed in the _Morning Chronicle_, July 13, 1820. The Burney family began to be famous with Dr. Charles Burney (1726-1814), the musician, the author of the _History of Music_, and the friend of Dr. Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds. Among his children were the Rev. Charles Burney (1757-1817), the classical scholar and owner of the Burney Library, now in the British Museum; Rear-Admiral James Burney (1750-1821), who sailed with Cook, wrote the _Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean_, and became a friend of Lamb; Frances Burney, afterwards Madame d'Arblay (1752-1840), the novelist, author of _Evelina, Camilla_ and _Cecilia_; and Sarah Harriet Burney (1770?-1844), a daughter of Dr. Burney's second wife, also a novelist, and the author, among other stories, of _Geraldine Fauconberg_. "Country Neighbours; or, The Secret," the tale that inspired Lamb's sonnet, formed Vols. II. and III. of Sarah Burney's _Tales of Fancy_. Blanch is the heroine. The good old man in Madame d'Arblay's _Camilla_ is Sir Hugh Tyrold, who adopted the heroine. Page 91. _To my Friend The Indicator_. Printed in _The Indicator_, September 27, 1820, signed ****, preceded by these words by Leigh Hunt, the editor:-- Every pleasure we could experience in a friend's approbation, we have felt in receiving the following verses. They are from a writer, who of all other men, knows how to extricate a common thing from commonness, and to give it an underlook of pleasant consciousness and wisdom. ...The receipt of these verses has set us upon thinking of the good-natured countenance, which men of genius, in all ages, have for the most part shewn to contemporary writers. * * * * * Page 92. _On seeing Mrs. K---- B----_. The late Mr. Dykes Campbell thought it very likely that these charming verses were Lamb's. I think they may be, although it is odd that he should not have reprinted anything so pretty. Mr. Thomas Hutchinson's belief that they are Lamb's, added to that of their discoverer, leads me to include them confidently here. Here and there it seems impossible that the poem could come from any other hand: line 11 for example, and the idea in lines 13 to 16, and the statement in lines 27 and 28. None the less it must be borne in mind that one does but conjecture. The lines are in _The Tickler Magazine_ for 1821. * * * * * Page 93. _To Emma, Learning Latin, and Desponding_. First printed in _Blackwood's Magazine_, June, 1829. Mary Lamb had other pupils in her time, among them Miss Kelly, the actress, Mary Victoria Novello (afterwards Mrs. Cowden Clarke), and William Hazlitt, the essayist's son. Emma was, of course, Emma Isola. Sara Coleridge's translation of Martin Dobrizhoffer's _Historia de Abiponibus_ under the title _Account of the Abipones_ was published in 1822, when she was only twenty.