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"Cer yole oblige me uf yole kum and ce me i hev a bad kowld an am hill in mi bow hills an hev lorst mi happetite.

Roger Trooman."

One Highlander wrote to another the following smart letter:--

"My dear Glengarry,--As soon as you can prove yourself to be my chief, I shall be ready to acknowledge you. In the meantime

I am yours, MacDonald."

The Duke of Wellington engaged an intelligent Scotch farmer, named Heriot, to act as his private secretary.

"Walking in the city one day," says the Rev. Dr. Charles Rogers, "Mr. Heriot met an old acquaintance from Scotland."

"Hallo! Heriot," said his friend, "what are you doing in London?"

"I am secretary to the Duke of Wellington," answered Heriot.

"You are nothing of the sort," said the Scotsman; "and I fear you're doing little good, since you would impose upon me in this fashion."

Returning to Scotland, it occurred to Heriot's acquaintance that he would write to the Duke, warning him that one Heriot "had been passing himself off as his secretary."

He received the following reply:

"Sir,--I am directed by the Duke of Wellington to acknowledge the receipt of your letter; and I am,

Your obedient servant,

J. Heriot, Private Secretary."

A captain being ordered with his regiment to the Cape, made application to the Duke of Wellington for permission to try and arrange for a transfer to another corps. The "Iron Duke" merely turned up his letter and wrote "Sail or sell," and returned it to the applicant.

Mr. George Seton, who has devoted much attention to this theme, tells an American story in which a brief letter holds a prominent place. He states that "in 1693, the Rev. Stephen Mix made a journey to Northampton in search of a wife. He arrived at the Rev. Solomon Stoddard's, and informed him of the object of his visit. Mr. Stoddard introduced him to his six daughters, and then retired. Addressing Mary, the eldest, Mr. Mix said that he had lately settled at Wethersfield, was desirous of obtaining a wife, and concluded by offering his heart and hand. The blushing damsel replied that so important a proposal required time for consideration; and accordingly Mr. Mix left the room in order to smoke a pipe with her father, while she took the case to 'avizandum.' On her answer being sent for, she requested further time for consideration; and it was agreed that she should send her answer by letter to Wethersfield. In the course of a few weeks, Mr. Mix received a reply, which was soon followed by the wedding:--

"Northampton, 3rd November, 1693.

Rev. Stephen Mix,--Yes.--Mary Stoddard."

We will bring to a close our examples of laconic letters with another specimen from the other side of the Atlantic. A notable dark day at Boston, on the 19th March, 1790, induced a lady to write to Dr. Byles, an eccentric but clever notability, the following note:--

"Dear Doctor,--How do you account for this darkness?"

He simply said:--

"Dear Madam,--I am as much in the dark as you are."

THE END

Index.

Ainsworth, W. H., 88

Alfreton, staked at Cards, 107

American Novelists, 65

Andersen, H. C., 20, 68

Andrews, Henry, 206-212

_Argosy_, 29

Arnold, Sir Edwin, 23

Austen, Jane, 67

Appleby, 215

Bacchanalian toasts, 124

Balloon Tytler, 12

Balzac, 14-16

Barnes, editor of _The Times_, 54

Beaconsfield, Earl of, 59-60

Bells, Rhymes on, 104, 106

Benwell Hall, 222

Beresford, James, 68

Beverley, 32, 101

Bills of Fare, 114, 115-116

Biographical Romance: Swan's Strange Story, 222-227

_Blackwood's Magazine_, 13

Blair's "Sermons," 72

Bloomfield, Robert, 73, 81

Bolas Magna, 201

Books, Southey's love of, 19

Boswell, 7

Braddon, Miss, 31-34

Bradstreet, Anne, 143-148

Brewer, Dr., 57-58

Briscoe, J. Potter, on Miller's Works, 196-198

Bristol, Procession of Nayler at, 219

Brooks, Henry M., 133

Bronte, Charlotte, 69-71

Browning, Robert, 64

Buchan's "Domestic Medicine," 72

Burleigh, Lord of, 199

Burns, Robert, 11, 91, 92, 98, 116-118

Butler, author of "Hudibras," 77-78

Butler, Professor, on Scrap-books, 131-133

Byron, Lord, 20, 50, 51, 73, 82, 84, 85

Campbell, Thomas, 55

Cards, 107

Carlyle, T., 2-3, 16

Catherine, Spelling of, 150-151

Cecil, Henry, 199

Celebrated Songs of Scotland, 11

Chalk, Lines on, 95

_Chambers's Journal_, 34

Charles II., letter to, 231

Chepstow, 219

Christian's View of Death, 171

Civil War, 213

Common Place-Book, Sala's, 38-41

Compiler of "Old Moore's Almanac": Henry Andrews, 206-212

_Cornhill Magazine_, 25, 34

Cornwall, Barry, 21

Cooper, Thomas, 187

Cottage Countess, The, 199-205

Cowper, 81

Crabbe, 51-52

Curious American Old-Time Gleanings, 131-142

Curiosities of the Lottery, 139-140

Days of the Spinning Wheel, 140

Daudet, A., 28-29

"Declined with Thanks," 67-75

Derbyshire rhymes, 100, 102, 106, 107, 108

De Quincey, 1

Dickens, Charles, 26-27, 58

Dictionary, Johnson's, how compiled, 4-7

Diving bell, 230

Dress _v._ Dinner, 92

Duck, Stephen, 79-80

Duel, 85

Ducking stool, 137

Earliest American Poetess: Anne Bradstreet, 143-148

Ears cropped, 136, 137

Earnings of Authors, 43-66

East Ardsley, 213

Edgeworth, Miss, 21

Editor's poverty, 9

Elegy written in a country churchyard, 45-46

Eliot, George, 27, 62-63

"Encyclopaedia Britannica," 7-12

English Folk Rhymes, 100-109

Epigrams on Authors, 76-89

Fergusson, Robert, 90

Fielding, 48

Fisherman's Funeral, The, 182

Flowers of the Forest, 161

Foote, S., 229

Fox, Geo., 214

French Epigrams, 76

Frieston, 206

Gallows, 136

Gay, 46

German Epigrams, 76

Gibbon, 56

Glazier's Toast, 129

Globe Tavern, Dumfries, 98

Gloucestershire Rhyme, 108

Goldsmith, 46-47

Gordon Riots, 80

Gore, Mrs., 17-18

Grant's Memoirs, 66

Greek Epigrams, 76

Gray, 21, 45-46

Greengrocer's Toast, 129

"Guide to Science," 57

Hadden, J. Cuthbert, 64

Hamerton, P. G., 35, 36

Hall, Dr. Spencer T., 188

Harte, Bret, 65

Hatter's Toast, 129

Hayley, 48

Hedon, 101

Historical value of newspapers, 131

Historical works, 56-57

Holderness, In, 184

Homer, 76-77

Hood, E. P., 88

Hook, Theodore, 83, 85

Hull, Stage, Miss Braddon on, 31; Rhyme, 103; Shakespearean Festival, 111; Burns' Club, 116-118; Literary Club, 118-119; Mrs. Jno. Hunter born at, 160

Hung in chains, 138

Humour in prison, 138-139

Hunter, Dr. John, 162-165

Hunter, Mrs. John, 160-175

Inn rhymes, 94, 95, 96, 98

"Jane Eyre," 69

Jeffrey, Lord, 85

Johnson, Dr. S., 4-7, 43, 46, 47

Keats, 25

Keble's "Christian Year," 73-74

Kentish Rhymes, 108

Kidnapping, 222

Knocking of feet in Churches, 135

Lady Mayoress of York, 103

Laidlow, William, 13

Lake Poets, 81

Lamb, Charles, 230

Lancashire rhymes 105, 107

Lang, Andrew, 41-42

Leechfield, 102

Lingard's History of England, 56

Lincolnshire rhymes, 103, 104, 105, 106

London rhyme, 103

Longfellow, 63-64

Lord Mayors of York, 103

Lost with all Hands, 180

Lotteries, 139-140

Lowell, J. R., 65

Loyal and Patriotic Toasts, 121-122

Ludicrous blunders, 74

Lytton, Bulwer, 59, 89

Macaulay, Lord, 56-57

Mansfield, Lord, 80-81

Martineau, Miss, 16

Masonic Toasts, 124

Miscellaneous Toasts, 127

Miller, A., 6

Miller, Joe, 80

Miller, Thomas, 186-198

Milton, John, 44; epigram on, 45

Monument in Greyfriars' to Mary Pyper, 175

Moore, Francis, 212

Moore, Thomas, 52-54, 85, 86

Mordaunt, 228

Musicians' Toasts, 128-129

My Mother bids me bind my Hair, 161

Myton Rhyme, 103

Naval and Military Toasts, 122-123

Nayler, James, the Mad Quaker, 213-221

New England Sunday, 133

Newington Church, 105

Newton, Sir Isaac, 78

Norfolk rhymes, 101

Norwich rhyme, 102

Nottingham Public Library, Miller's books in, 196-198

Old Fountain, The, 192

Old Moore's Almanac, 206-212

Olden Times Series, by Henry M. Brooks, 133-142

Oliphant, Mrs., 50

On seeing two little girls present a flower to a dying person, 173

Ouida, 63

"Paradise Lost," 44

Pawnbroker's Toast, 129

Payn, James, 34-35, 60

Playful Poet: Miss Catherine Fanshawe, 149-159

Playing at cards for towns, 107

Phillips, Sir Richard, 73

Phonographic curiosity, 232

Pillory, 136; Nayler in the, 220

Poem in imitation of Wordsworth, 151

Poet and Novelist of the People: Thomas Miller, 186-198

Poet of the Fisher-Folk: Mrs. Susan K. Phillips, 176-185

Poet of the Poor: Mary Pyper, 167-175

Poetical Graces, 90-93

Poetry of Toast Lists and Menu Cards, 110-119

Poetry on Panes, 94-99

Political Toasts, 126

Pope, 46, 78

Popular Song Writer: Mrs. John Hunter, 160-175

Prayer by proxy, 92

Prescott, 72

Printer's troubled by authors, 16

Professional Toasts, 128

Proud Preston, 105

Punning Toasts, 125

Purlwell Hall, 97

Pyper, Mary, 167-175

Quakers punished, 137; Mad Quaker, 213-221

Quin, 229

Rabbits, Grace on, 27

Reade, Charles, 27-28

Redeeming Friars, 223

Rich, 229

Richardson, Professor C. F., 146

Richter, J. P., 2-3

Riddle on the letter H., 153-154

Rhyming grants of land, 100-101

Robertson's "History of Scotland," 56

"Robinson Crusoe," 67

Rose, Sir George, 87

Roxburghe Club, 127-128

Royston, 208

Ruskin, John, 63

Sala, G. A., 36-41

Sandon, rhyme at, 95

Scrap-books, 131-133

Scarborough rhymes, 109

Schmidt, 231

Schoolmaster's Toasts, 128

School books, 55

Scolds, punished, 137

Scott, Sir Walter, 12-13, 48-50, 73, 82-83

_Scots' Magazine_, 8

Selling bells, Rhymes on, 104

Sentimental Toasts, 126

Servant of God, 172

Seymour, Digby, 87

Shakespeare's fortune, 44

Shakespearean Quotations, 111-115

Shelley, 22

Shoemaker's Toast, 129

Short Letters, 228-235

Slave-trade, 140-142

Sleeping in meeting-house, Punishment for, 135

Smedley, F., 230

Smellie, William, 7-8

Smith, Albert, 86

Smith, Sydney, 229

Smollett, 56

Somerville, Mrs., 21

Somerset rhymes, 103

Southey, 19-20, 21, 82

Spires of Churches, 106

Sporting Toasts, 125

St Andrews' University, 90

Sterne, 71

Stoves, introduction into churches, 134

Stowe, Mrs., 71

Strange and curious punishments, 135

Sunday in New England, 133

Swan's Strange Story, 222-227

Swift, Dean, 79

Tennyson, Lord, 14, 64, 118-119, 199

Tercentenary Banquet at Stratford-on-Avon, 114

Thackeray, W. M, 27, 58, 87

Theodore, King of Corsica, 78

Thompson, Town Clerk of Hull, 87-88

_Times, The_, editorship refused by Southey, 19

Toasts and Toasting, 120-130

Tongue bored with a hot iron, 220

Travelling on Sunday, 133

Trollope, Mrs, 18-19

Trollope, A., 1, 24-25, 60-62

Trollope, T. A., 18

Tytler, Joseph, 8-12

Ugley, rhyme on, 106

Vegetarian graces, 93

"Vicar of Wakefield," 46

"Vice Versa," 72

Vyse's Spelling-Book, 55

Wakefield, 213, 214

Warner, Miss, 71

Warren, Samuel, 68, 87-88

Waterloo, 83-84

Weather rhymes, 108

Wellington, Secretary to the Duke of, 233

Wesley, Rev. S., 93

Whipping, 135, 220

Whitby Bells, 185

White, H. K., 81

Wilberforce, Bishop, 26

Wilson, Professor, 13-14

Wood, Mrs. Henry, 29-31

Worcestershire Rhymes, 109

Wolfe, Charles, 74-75

Words, meaning of, 6

Wordsworth, W., 22-23, 82

York Theatre, 96

Yorkshire pane rhymes, 94, 95, 96, 97; Rhymes, 103-109; Poets, 176.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] He was thirty years of age.

[2] The Royal Institution where the Rev. Sydney Smith was reading lectures on moral philosophy. The particular lecture alluded to in the above ode was "The Sublime."

[3] A fashionable milliner.

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BY WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S.,

_Demy 8vo., 7s. 6d. Numerous Illustrations._

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS:--The House of Commons in the time of Sir Robert Walpole--Egyptian Wig--The Earl of Albemarle--Campaign Wig--Periwig with Tail--Ramillie-Wig--Pig-tail Wig--Bag-Wig--Archbishop Tilotson--Heart-Breakers--A Barber's Shop in the time of Queen Elizabeth--With and Without a Wig--Stealing a Wig--Man with Muff, 1693--Burying the Mace at Nottingham--The Lord Mayor of York escorting Princess Margaret--The Mayor of Wycombe going to the Guildhall--Woman wearing a Scold's Bridle--The Brank--Andrew Marvell--Old London Bridge, shewing heads of rebels on the gate--Axe, Block, and Executioner's Mask--Margaret Roper taking leave of her father, Sir Thomas More--Rebel Heads, from a print published in 1746--Temple Bar in Dr. Johnson's time--Micklegate Bar, York--Clock, Hampton Court Palace--Drawing a Lottery in the Guildhall, 1751--Advertising the Last State Lottery--Partaking of the Pungent Pinch--Morris Dance, from a painted window at Betley--Morris Dance, temp. James I.--A Whitsun Morris Dance--Bear Garden, or Hope Theatre, 1647--The Globe Theatre, temp. Elizabeth--Plan of Bankside early in the Seventeenth Century--John Stow's Monument.

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