Excerpt from Essays In 1792, through the influence of Samuel Salt, he was ap pointed to a clerkship in the accountants' office of the East India Company, beginning with a salary of 70 a year. In the India House he continued till 1825, when his salary had risen to about 700 a year, half of which was granted him as a pension. In 1795 his father, old and infirm, retired from the service of Mr. Salt, and took lodgings in Little Queen Street, Holborn, where in the following year occurred the tragic death of. Mrs. Lamb, stabbed by her daughter in a fit of insanity. The oldfather survived but a few months; a sister of his who had formed one of the family died about the same time. Thus Charles and Mary, who had meantime recovered her reason, were left practi cally alone in the world; for their brother John held aloof, desir ing that Mary should remain in the asylum. Charles had had an attack of insanity in the winter of 1795 - 6; it was, perhaps, in con sequence of this, and the care of his sister, that he gave up the idea of marrying the Anna of his sonnets. He had no return of the madness, but Mary had frequent relapses, the approach of which she felt in time to enable her to retire to the lunatic asylum. It was in 1796 that Lamb first appeared as an author, when four sonnets by him were published in a volume of Coleridge's poems. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
