Beautiful woman, Letter to a, 233.
Beethoven's letters, 38.
Begging-letters, 159.

Specimens of, 161, 162.
Begging-letter writer, The ideal, 163.
Bell, Rev. Dr. Andrew, 130.

John, his three hands, 202.
Bentinck, Lord William, 201.
Berkeley to Dorset, 101.
'Best wishes,' etc., 147.
Bible, The well-read, 103.
Biographies, Letters in modern, 76.
Black Prince, 207.

Blackwood on the penmanship of Brit-
ish statesmen, 200.

Blemishes, Epistolary, 146, et seq.
Blessington, Countess of, 217.
'Blind Officers,' 182.
Boccaccio, 38.

Boleyn, Anne, her last letter to Henry

Carnegies, Earls of Southesk, Corre-
spondence of the, 19.

Carpenter, Miss, to Sir Walter Scott,

128, 129.
Cassilis, Earl of, 21.

Celtic indignation, Letter illustrative

of, 145.

Chalmers, Rev. Dr., 210.
Chambers, Dr. Robert, 210.
Chambers' Journal on autography,

Clandestine interviews, 169.

'Clarinda' to 'Sylvander,' 127.

Clement VII., Pope, 38.

Clergymen and begging-letters, 160.

Handwriting of, 215.

Testimonials of, 160.

Clerkly hand, 213.

Cobbett, William, on crossed letters, 7.

False charges by, 27.

Cobden, Richard, 209.

Cockburn, Henry, to Mr. Bridges, 87.
Collingwood, Lord, on letter-writing,
158.

Colonial correspondence, 187.
Commonalty, Letters of the, 140.
Complexion and handwriting, 219.
'Composition letters,' 121.
Conclusions, Stereotyped, 147.
Condé, Prince de, 211.

Condolence, Letter of, by Sir Walter
Scott, 81.

Cooke, Quaint letter of Eliza, 90.

Corday, Charlotte, 211.
Correspondence, Altered character of,

IO.

Increase of, 185, 191.

Courtship, Model letters for, 168.
Cowper to Lady Hesketh, etc., 56.
's correspondence, 53.

postman described by, 192.

Coxe's (Archdeacon) 'Hieroglyphics,'

202.

Crabbe, George, 61.

Cromwell, Oliver, 211.

Crossed letters, 7, 221.

Cuningham's edition of Walpole's Let-

ters, 57.
Cuvier, 211.

DALHOUSIE, Earl of, 209.
Marquis of, 201, 209.

Dalrymple, Letter of Sir Hew, 24.
Dalzell of Binns, General, 20.
Danton, 211.

Darwin on handwriting, 213.
Date in letters, Importance of, 188.
A corrected, 189.

Davenal, Dick, 133.

to his cousin Sara, 134.
Dead-letter Office, 185, 189.

'Dear Sir' and 'Dear Madam,' 176.
'Dearest Wife,' 177.

Deffand, Madame du, 36.

'Delay' of public officers, 111.

De Quincey on Pope's correspondence,

School-boy letters by, 135.

Dishington, Rev. Andrew, 25.
'Divine pebble,' 125.

Doddridge, Philip, 210.

Domestic servants, Model letters for,
172.

Doree v. Dean, 113.

Dorset, Countess of, 100.

her pithy letter, 100.

Dorset to Berkeley, 101.

Dryden's translation of Voiture's letters,
30.

Dufferin, Lady, Letter by, 239.
Duff-Gordon, Lady, 62.

her Letters from Egypt, 62.

on, 196.

Hare, Archdeacon, on Cowper's let-
ters, 54.

on italics, 152.

Hastings, Marquis of, 201.

Helps, Arthur, on bad handwriting,
198, 199.

on men of business, 107.

Hemans, Felicia, 62.

Henry V., 207.

Henry, Matthew, 210.

Hereditary handwriting, 214.

Heriot, Queen Anna's letter to George,
98.

Hesketh, Lady, on letter-writing, 55.
"Hieroglyphics,' 202, 213.
Highlander's address, 184.
Hill, Sir Rowland, 185.
Hints on letter-writing,' 175.
Hodgson, Mr. Richard, 205.
Hogg, James, 210.

to his brother, 84.

Sir James Weir, 205.
Hofacker on handwriting, 214.
Holograph letter, Early, 207.
'Honoured sir,' Madam,' etc., 176.
Hood, Thomas, to Mary Elliot, 138.
Hook, Theodore, 210.
Hotham, Lord, 205.

'Hout awa! it's the 11th,' 189, 240.
Howell, Letters of James, 15.
Humboldts, Letters of the two, 38.
Hume, David, 61.

-Joseph, 210.
Hunt, Leigh, 210.

on Lady M. W. Montagu, 48.

to a grandchild, 137.

his reply to applications for sub-
scriptions, 175.

Jenkins, Mrs. Gedoin, on handwriting,

218.

Knowles, Sheridan, 210.

Knox, Alexander, his correspondence
with Bishop Jebb, 150.

LACONIC French letter, 8.

letters, 101, et seq.

Ladies of Great Britain, Letters of,
18.

and begging-letters, 160.
Handwriting of, 216.

La Harpe, 36.

Lamb, Charles, 61.

on handwriting, 204.

to P. G. Patmore, 70.

L'Art de juger du Caractère des

Hommes sur leur Ecriture, 220.

'Last words,' 10.

Lauzun, M. de, 34.

Lawyers, Handwriting of, 215.

Legible handwriting, 197, 203.
'L. E. L.,' 62, 216.

Letter-writing, Guides to, 165, et seq.
Letter-writers, Eminent, 28, et seq.

Lyttleton, Lord, 215.

Lytton, Lord, 210.

MACAULAY, Lord, 209.

's estimate of Walpole, 58.
Macdonald of Sleat to Glengarry, 100.
Mackenzie, Lord Lindsay's Memoir of
Lady Anna, 6.

Mackintosh, Sir James, 209.
Maclean, Mrs., 62.

M'Lehose, Mrs., to Burns, 127.
Macleod, Rev. Dr. Norman, 209.
'Madam' and 'Sir,' 176.
Madeleine Smith, 113.

Mademoiselle, The great, 34, 223.
Magisterial mantle, The, 194.
Maintenon, Madame de, 36.
Male epistles, 6.

Manner and matter, 221.

Manuce's Italian letters, 38.

Mark, Signature by, 207.

Marlborough, Duchess of, 155.
Marriage, A contemplated, 34, 223.

registers, Signatures in the, 207.
Marsh, Miss, her English Hearts and
English Hands, 141.

Martel's Love Letters of Eminent Per-

Sons, 120.
Martineau, Miss, 216.

Marville, Vigneul, on Balzac, 29.
Mary Queen of Scots, 220.
Mason's Biography of Gray, 52.
Mathew, Quaint letter of Father, 90.
Matilda of Scotland, 18.
Matrimonial letter, 14.

letters, 117.

Matrimony, Model letters for, 168.
Matter and manner, 221.

253

Maxwells of Pollok, Correspondence
of the, 19.

Mazarin, Cardinal, 35.

Mazzini, Giuseppe, 210.

Means, Want of, an objection to matri-
mony, 171.

Medical practitioners, Handwriting of,

214.

Medici, Cardinal de, 38.

Members of Parliament, Good writing

of, 202.

Men of business, First-rate, 107.
Mendelssohn's letters, 38.

Mendicity Society, London, 160.
Mercantile hand, 204.
Meteorological letters, 148.
Michael Angelo, 38.
Milbanke, Miss, 131.
Miller, Hugh, 210.

Milton, Lord, 21.
Minto, Lord, 201.

'Miss' and Mrs.,' 178.

Mitford, Miss, 62, 216.

Mitford's correspondence of Gray, 52.

Mix, Rev. Stephen, to Mary Stoddard,