this letter against his fourth Avatar. This is a bold hand-the writer is no beggar. Yes, he is, an impudent beggar. Signs himself Aristarchus, and says that he has read my writings with a disgust he cannot describe (who asked him?), and that he has no doubt that in my black heart I find echoes of all the sentiments of my objectionable characters. Very well, that's no business of his'n. A pink note. Ah! that was a sell, a cruel sell. The handwriting so pretty, and all so dainty, and I thought-of course if it had been so I should have answered her in a fatherly manner, and sent her 'Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his Daughters' but it was an invitation to examine the enclosed list of prices of coals at the Slaterubble Colliery. 'Hang her, foul collier!' Such tricks, however, defeat themselves, for I would sooner burn blue-books and missionary reports all the evening than coals advertised so treacherously. Hm! wheels. INDEX. ABANDONED engagements, 170. Abyssinian letter, The celebrated, 92. on letter-writing, 148. Address, Modes of, 176. Old styles of, 22. Varied styles of, 180. Addresses, Extraordinary, 182, et seq. Imperfect, 181. African letter, 91. Ainsworth, Harrison, 210. Aird, Thomas, 210. Aldus' Italian letters, 38. Alford, Dean, 210. Alleghanians, Letter to the, 92. America, Correspondence with, 187. humour, 95. Amherst, Lord, 201. Angularity of ladies' handwriting, 216. Anna R. to George Heriot, 98. Argyll, Duke of, 210. Arithmetic, Attention to, 196. Arnold, Letters of Dr., 83. Stanley's Life of, 76. 'Artemus Ward,' 96. on 'Wax Figgers,' 96. Auckland, Lord, 201. Ayala, Don Pedro de, Letter of, 225. BACON, Lord, 211. Ballantyne, R. M., Letter by, 238. Beautiful woman, Letter to a, 233. Specimens of, 161, 162. John, his three hands, 202. Blackwood on the penmanship of Brit- Blemishes, Epistolary, 146, et seq. Boleyn, Anne, her last letter to Henry VIII., 16. Boswell's Life of Johnson, 76. Boy-of-genius hand, 204. Boys and girls, Letters of, 132. Breach of promise case, Scottish, 114. Brooks, Shirley, 210, 215. Browne, Charles (Artemus Ward"), 96. 202. Burns, Robert, 61, 120, 127. to Charles K. Sharpe, 85. Carnegies, Earls of Southesk, Corre- Carpenter, Miss, to Sir Walter Scott, Cassilis, Earl of, 21. Corday, Charlotte, 211. IO. Increase of, 185, 191. Courtship, Model letters for, 168. postman described by, 192. Coxe's (Archdeacon) Hieroglyphics,' 202. Crabbe, George, 61. Cromwell, Oliver, 211. Cuningham's edition of Walpole's Let- ters, 57. Cuvier, 211. DALHOUSIE, Earl of, 209. Celtic indignation, Letter illustrative Dalrymple, Letter of Sir Hew, 24. 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. Clerkly hand, 213. Cobbett, William, on crossed letters, 7. False charges by, 27. Cockburn, Henry, to Mr. Bridges, 87. Colonial correspondence, 187. Condolence, Letter of, by Sir Walter Cooke, Quaint letter of Eliza, 90. Dalzell of Binns, General, 20. Darwin on handwriting, 213. Date in letters, Importance of, 188. Davenal, Dick, 133. to his cousin Sara, 134. 'Dear Sir' and 'Dear Madam,' 176. Deffand, Madame du, 36. 'Delay' of public officers, 11I. De Quincey on Pope's correspondence, Index. Duff-Gordon, Lady, contrasted with | Franklin, Benjamin, 61. Lady M. W. Montagu, 62. Dunbar's Social Life in Former Days, 184. Dundas, Letter to Sir Laurence, 24. EASTLAKE, Lady, 62, 217. Eglinton, Correspondence of the Earls Alexander, sixth Earl of, 20. to his Countess, 22. 251 Fraser, William, his Works illustrative letter-writers, 28, et seq. GARRARD, Letters of Rev. George, 15. Susanna Kennedy, Countess of, Garrick, David, 61, 209. George IV., 212. German letter-writers, 37. 's letters, 63. Girls and boys, Letters of, 132. Goethe's correspondence, 37, 120. to his mother, 63. -'s chequered experiences, 64, et letters, 63. Gordon, Duchess of, Horace Walpole Gothic characteristics of handwriting, 212. Graduated modes of address, 177. Gray, Thomas, 210. to Rev. William Mason, 52, 53. Grecian's and deputy-Grecian's hands, 204. 'Greysteel' (Alexander sixth Earl of to his Countess, 22. Guides to letter writing, 165, et seq. Guthrie, Rev. Dr., 209. HALL, Rev. Robert, 209. on Madame de Sévigné, 32. Bad, 198, 199, 203, 215. Individualism of, 209, 212. |