Excerpt from The Letters and Works of Charles Lamb, Vol. 1: Newly Arranged With Addiction; Edited With Introduction Notes Most terrible event in her life. AS long as Mary Lamb survived her brother, no letters, however interesting, which bore upon that calamity or the sacrifices it entailed, or upon the frequent recur rence of the malady in the life of the sister, could be printed without large omissions. Hence the Letters in the volumes of 1837 were in many cases fragments only, and made no claim to be anything else. 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.