Perspicuity in business letters, 108. Photographic portraiture, 143. Pigtail, Sailor's letter anent, 142. Pomare v. to the Alleghanians, 92. to Mrs. Fermor, 41. to the poet Gay, 42. 's correspondence, 40, 120, 121. Porson, Richard, 212. Porter, Jane and Anna Maria, 62. Postal arrangements, their effect on Postman described by Cowper, 193. 191. Post-office Statistics, 185, et seq. Post-town in date of letter, 189. 'Press,' its effects on correspondence, 11. Prime Ministers, Good writing of, 199. Pusey, Rev. Dr., 210. QUAINT letters, 84, et seq. - superscriptions, 183, 184. Quaker correspondence, Laconic, 107. 54. Queen, Letters to the, 93, 94. RACINE, 36. Radical Members, Bad writing of, 202. Reading, Disadvantage of bad, 196. 'Red-tape,' III. Refusal, Model forms of, 173, 174. Registrar-General, Quaint letter to Report of the, 207. Repetitions, Categorical, 155. on love-letters, 123. Rowley, Case of Mr. and Mrs., 118. Ruskin, John, 210. Russell, Correspondence of Lady, 19. Lord John, 199, 200. Ruthall, Bishop, 212. School diet, 135. Scotland and England, Marriage Scotland, Gray's description of, 52. Scott, Sir Walter, 209. his objection to wafers, 190. Lockhart's Life of, 76. to the Duke of Buccleuch, 80, Scottish correspondence, 19. intelligence in the matter of ad- dresses, 183, 186. letters, Eccentric, 189. letters, Two characteristic, 240. Scriptural letters, 1, 4. Sculptor's love-letter, 125. weakness, A, 179. Sealing-wax, 190. Seller, Dr. William, 219. Sentimentalism, Sickly, 113. Seton line of the Earls of Eglinton, 20. Seventeenth century letters, 19. her letters to her daughter, 32. Shaftesbury, Earl of, 209. 'Artemus Ward' on, 97. Sharpe, Archbishop, 20. of Hoddom, General, 205. Charles Kirkpatrick, 85. Sibbald, Laconic letter of James, 102. Signatures, 204, et seq. Early Royal, 207. Illegible, 205. Old, 22. Similarity of, 214. Sinclair, Miss Catherine, 99. 255 Smedley, Frank, his lines to Mrs. Virtue, 91. Smith, Sydney, 61. to Lord Jeffrey, 73. to Mrs. Murchison, 74. Southey, Robert, 61. 's Life and Letters of Cowper, 55. Spectator, The, 45, 121. Speke, Letter on the death of Captain, 91. Spelling and handwriting, 203. his Life of Dr. Arnold, 76. Taylor, Isaac, 210. Jeremy, 20. Tom, 215. Telegraph, Extended use of the, 192. Sir John, his numerous distinc- Temple, Sir William, his long sen- tions, 181. 'Sir' and 'Madam,' 176. Sixteenth century letters, 18, 19. tences, 153. Tennyson, Alfred, 210. Testimonials, Clerical, 160. Thackeray, William M., 210, 215. |