She is not particular as to pens and paper, and an old atlas on her knee is all the desk she cares for.

[The Atlas was the paper which Allsop sent to Lamb every week.

Atlas is (was) a mythical giant who was supposed to hold (to have held) the sky on his shoulders.

To the west again is Mount Atlas, quite to the sea; to the south the hills called AEsperos, and to the south again the nation called Ausolum, which inhabits quite to the sea. $ 15.

Atlas was just a gentleman with a protracted nightmare!