(WHITE, James).

ORIGINAL LETTERS ETC OF SIR JOHN FALSTAFF AND HIS FRIENDS; Now first made public by a Gentleman, a descendant of Dame Quickly, from Genuine Manuscripts which have been in the possession of the Quickly Family near four hundred years.

London. For the Author. 1796. pp. xxiv, 123. Frontis. 12mo. Modern half calf, cloth boards. New endpapers. Roff pp.16 - 20. It is possible that Charle Lamb had a hand in the composition of his book by his old schoolmate and friend. The strongest evidence to this effect is the statement made by Southey, in a letter to Moxon, written February 2 1836, more than a year after Lambís death. Southey says of White: ë He and Lamb were joint authors of the ëOriginal Letters of Falstaffí. John Matthew Gutch, a Christís Hospital boy, in an inscription on the fly-leaf of his copy of the book says ë These Letters were the production of my old schoolfellow James White, with incidental hints and corrections by another schoolfellow, Charles Lambí. Lamb refers to the book many times in his letters but does not clain authorship. He sent a copy to Manning in 1800 calling it ìa bundle of the sharpest, queerest, profoundest humours, of any these juice-drained latter times have spawnedî. Proctor (Barry Cornwall) in his memoir of Lamb says ëIt was always a great favourite with Lamb. He reviewed it, after Whiteís death in the Examiner ........ At all events, Lamb thought highly of Whiteís book, which he used often to purchase and give away to his friends.î

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