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Poor W . In the Key Lamb identifies W with Favell, who "left Cambridge because he was asham'd of his father, who was a house-painter there." Favell has already been mentioned in the essay on "Christ's Hospital." At Lincoln. The Lambs, as we have seen, came from Lincolnshire.
His father held two livings near Northampton Western Favell and Collington; but, though the joint incomes only amounted to 180l. a year, and though the villages were both of small population and not far apart, Hervey for some time scrupled to be a pluralist; and it was only in order to provide for the wants of an aged mother and a sister that he at length consented to hold both livings.
According to Osler, Beverly Robinson describes a heart weighing 53 ounces, and Dulles has reported one weighing 48 ounces. Among other modern records are the following: Fifty and one-half ounces, 57 ounces, and one weighing four pounds and six ounces. The Ephemerides contains an incredible account of a heart that weighed 14 pounds. Favell describes a heart that only weighed 3 1/2 ounces.
Lovell and I walked from Bath to meet him. Near Marlborough we met with the appointed waggon; but no S. T. Coleridge was therein! A little while afterward, I went to London, and not finding him at 'The Cat and Salutation, called at Christ's Hospital, and was conducted by Favell to 'The Angel Inn, Butcher Hall street, whither Coleridge had shifted his quarters.
F . Joseph Favell, afterwards Captain, who had a commission from the Duke of York as had Sam Le Grice and was killed in the Peninsula, at Salamanca, 1812. Lamb states in the essay on "Poor Relations," where Favell figures as "W.," that he met his death at St. Sebastian. Both Sam Le Grice and Favell were to have accompanied Coleridge and Southey to the Susquehanna as Pantisocrats.
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