Dorothy's brothers were, in order of age, Richard
, William
, John
, and Christopher
. Richard became a lawyer, John a naval officer (who died when the ship he commanded ran aground and sank...
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Mary Lamb
She went on here to offer the consolation that this is a defect I trust time will remedy.
Lamb, Charles, 1775 - 1834, and Mary, 1764 - 1847 Lamb. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Editor Marrs, Edwin J., Jr, Cornell University Press, 1975, 3 vols.
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She liked to write what she described (to Dorothy Wordsworth
) as a long gossipping...