“The adoption of this signature was purely accidental.Lamb's first
contribution to the London Magazine was a description of the old
South-Sea House, where he had passed a few months' novitiate as a
clerk, ... and remembering the name of a gay light-hearted foreigner,
who fluttered there at the time, substituted his name for his own.” —Talfourd.
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