Lamb considered the Emigrant's Cabin, p. 49, "a very charming poem and refreshed by British names". Of the 6 poems listed above, the Emigrant's Cabin and the Incantation did not appear in the volume of poetry published in 1828 under the title Ephemerides. Two of the other poems had slightly changed titles in the 1834 volume. The African sketches contained not only his South African poems but also his Narrative of a residence in South Africa. On page 55 is a note by Adam White "Proof of some pages of Pringle's 'African sketches', with annotations by Elia April 13, 1875. John Crossby alias Porteous alias a jolly good fellow from Adam White alias Aleck Grey etc. etc. and with him a lover of Charles Lamb, the loveable essayist and good man whose friends were Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wm. Wordsworth, Robert Southey and all men who loved literature, honesty joined with rare good humour and great power".