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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.
Abrupt terminations, 146.

Abyssinian letter, The celebrated, 92.
Accentuation, Erroneous, 153.
Addison's correspondence, 45.
Addison to Congreve, 46.

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.
American courtship, 104.

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.
Matthew, on Joubert, 36.

'Artemus Ward,' 96.

on 'Wax Figgers,' 96.

Auckland, Lord, 201.
Authors, Handwriting of, 215.
Autography, Article on, 219.

Ayala, Don Pedro de, Letter of, 225.

BACON, Lord, 211.

Ballantyne, R. M., Letter by, 238.
Balzac, Jean L. G. de, 28, 32.
Barlow, Sir George, 201.
Barrington, Bishop, on 'Hierogly-
phics,' 202.

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

VIII., 16.

Boswell's Life of Johnson, 76.
Boyd, Zachary, 20.

Boy-of-genius hand, 204.

Boys and girls, Letters of, 132.
Bray, Mrs., 62.

Breach of promise case, Scottish, 114.
Brevity in business-letters, 108.
Bridegrooms and brides, Signatures
of, 207.

Brooks, Shirley, 210, 215.
Brontë, Charlotte, 217.
Brougham, Lord, 210.
Brown, Rev. Dr. John, 210.

Browne, Charles (Artemus Ward"), 96.
Bryant, Jacob, on Hieroglyphics,'

202.

Burns, Robert, 61, 120, 127.
Burke on letter-writing, 55.
Burning of letters, Punch on, 243.
Bury, Lady Charlotte, 217.

to Charles K. Sharpe, 85.

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

Carpenter, Miss, to Sir Walter Scott,
128, 129.

Cassilis, Earl of, 21.

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.

Celtic indignation, Letter illustrative Dalrymple, Letter of Sir Hew, 24.

of, 145.

Chalmers, Rev. Dr., 210.

Chambers, Dr. Robert, 210.

Chambers' Journal on autography,

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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.

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, 11I.

De Quincey on Pope's correspondence,

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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.
Dyer, George, 204.

EASTLAKE, Lady, 62, 217.
Edifying correspondence, 150.

Eglinton, Correspondence of the Earls
of, 19, et seq.

Alexander, sixth Earl of, 20.

to his Countess, 22.

251

Fraser, William, his Works illustrative
of Scottish correspondence, 19.
French letter, Laconic, 8.

letter-writers, 28, et seq.
Frenchman and amanuensis, 202.
-'s views on handwriting, 221.
Friendly epistle, The, 5.
Friendship, Sterne on, 69.
Friends, Dr. Johnson on old, 78.
Friends in Council, 198.

GARRARD, Letters of Rev. George, 15.

Susanna Kennedy, Countess of, Garrick, David, 61, 209.

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George IV., 212.

German letter-writers, 37.
Gibbon, Edward, 61.

's letters, 63.

Girls and boys, Letters of, 132.
Gladstone, William E., 210.
Glasgow, Signature of Lord, 206.
Glengarry, Sleat's pithy letter to, 100.
Godwin, Mrs., 61, 217.

Goethe's correspondence, 37, 120.
Goldsmith, Oliver, 61.

to his mother, 63.

-'s chequered experiences, 64, et
seq.

letters, 63.

Gordon, Duchess of, Horace Walpole
on, 60.

Gothic characteristics of handwriting,

212.

Graduated modes of address, 177.
Graham, Sir James, 210.
Graphic epistle, 149.

Gray, Thomas, 210.

to Rev. William Mason, 52, 53.
-'s correspondence, 51.

Grecian's and deputy-Grecian's hands,

204.

'Greysteel' (Alexander sixth Earl of
Eglinton), 20.

to his Countess, 22.

Guides to letter writing, 165, et seq.
their miscellaneous contents, 167.
Guizot, M., 210.

Guthrie, Rev. Dr., 209.

HALL, Rev. Robert, 209.
Hallam on Balzac, 29.

on Madame de Sévigné, 32.
Handwriting, 195, et seq.

Bad, 198, 199, 203, 215.
Character from, 217.
Hereditary, 214.

Individualism of, 209, 212.

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