. William Hone; his life and times. WILLIAM HONE AND CHARLES LAMB 281 ready to affirm that your speech and action since Ihave known you—ten or eleven years I think—havebeen the most opposite to anything profane or irre-hgious, and that in your domestic relations a kinderhusband or father, as it seemed to me, could not you transmitted your case, or petition, to , Editor of the Athenceam, with this note of mine—he knows me—and he may know some of the LiterarySociety. I am totally unacquainted with them.* With best wishes to you and Mrs. Hone, Yours faithfully, C. Lamb. XXI GET
. William Hone; his life and times. WILLIAM HONE AND CHARLES LAMB 281 ready to affirm that your speech and action since Ihave known you—ten or eleven years I think—havebeen the most opposite to anything profane or irre-hgious, and that in your domestic relations a kinderhusband or father, as it seemed to me, could not you transmitted your case, or petition, to , Editor of the Athenceam, with this note of mine—he knows me—and he may know some of the LiterarySociety. I am totally unacquainted with them.* With best wishes to you and Mrs. Hone, Yours faithfully, C. Lamb. XXI GETTING OUT OF KINGS BENCH PRISON We find Hone at last rousing himself and making aneffort to get away from confinement ; and when thefull tale of his troubles has been told it will be acknow-ledged that he was not easily spurred to action. Inthe following appeal to his trusty legal friend Parkeswe seem to recognise in the piteous writer a sort ofmodern Job, upon whose unfortunate head calamityhad succeeded calamity, till the
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