"[Charles] Lamb has nowhere acknowledged having had any part in the writing of this book, the work of his old school-fellow, James White...Had Lamb had a hand in the actual writing of the book it is unlikely he would not have divulged the fact to some of his friends, and unlikely also that he would have been so persistent in praising it."--Thomson, Bibliography of Charles and Mary Lamb, p. 4, no. 3.