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Charles Le Grice left little to posterity except some squibs, some reminiscences of Lamb and
Coleridge, and a translation of the Greek Author Longus. Instead Le Grice is mostly known through stories told by others. Lamb wrote some reflections on Le Grice in the essay
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and was known to be a great comfort to Lamb after the murder of his mother at the hands of his sister Mary. Upon leaving Christ's
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Charles Le Grice on 14 February 1773. Little is known of Le Grice's early life but he was enrolled in
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