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Perspicuity in business letters, 108.
Petrarch, 38.

Photographic portraiture, 143.
Piatoni's Italian letters, 38.

Pigtail, Sailor's letter anent, 142.
Pithy letters, 98, et seq.
Pollock, Sir Frederick, 210.

Pomare v. to the Alleghanians, 92.
Pope, Alexander, 212.

to Mrs. Fermor, 41.

to the poet Gay, 42.

's correspondence, 40, 120, 121.

Porson, Richard, 212.

Porter, Jane and Anna Maria, 62.
Portland, Duke of, 210.

Postal arrangements, their effect on
correspondence, 11.

Postman described by Cowper, 193.
Postmark of undated letters, 198.
Postmaster-General's Reports, 185, 186.

191.

Post-office Statistics, 185, et seq.
Postscripts, 8, 22, 221.

Post-town in date of letter, 189.
Præloquium, Roman, 2, 4, 140.
Prescriptions, Illegible, 214.

'Press,' its effects on correspondence,

11.

Prime Ministers, Good writing of, 199.
Proposal, Model forms of, 173.
Provost's correspondence, A, 193.
Punch on letter-burning, 243.
Punctuation, 154.

Pusey, Rev. Dr., 210.

QUAINT letters, 84, et seq.

- superscriptions, 183, 184.

Quaker correspondence, Laconic, 107.
Quarterly Review on Cowper's letters,

54.

Queen, Letters to the, 93, 94.
Handwriting of the, 216.

RACINE, 36.

Radical Members, Bad writing of, 202.
Raleigh, Letters of Sir Walter, 18.
Rambler, The, on epistolary style,
155.

Reading, Disadvantage of bad, 196.
Receipt of Letters, 192.

'Red-tape,' III.

Refusal, Model forms of, 173, 174.
Registers, Marriage, 207.

Registrar-General, Quaint letter to
the, 143.

Report of the, 207.

Repetitions, Categorical, 155.
Returned letters, 185, 186.
Richard II., 207.
Rigby, Elizabeth, 62.
Rogers, Samuel, 210.
Roman letters, 2, 189.
Romantic effusions, 171.
Rousseau, 36.

on love-letters, 123.

Rowley, Case of Mr. and Mrs., 118.
R-s, The three, 196.
Rubens, 211.

Ruskin, John, 210.

Russell, Correspondence of Lady, 19.
Earl, 209.

Lord John, 199, 200.

Ruthall, Bishop, 212.
Rutherfurd, Samuel, 20.

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School diet, 135.

Scotland and England, Marriage
registers of, 208.

Scotland, Gray's description of, 52.
in 1498, 228.

Scott, Sir Walter, 209.

his objection to wafers, 190.
Letters of, 80.

Lockhart's Life of, 76.

to the Duke of Buccleuch, 80,
81.

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.
Sévigné, Madame de, 31.

her letters to her daughter, 32.
to M. de Coulanges, 34, 223.
Seward, Letters of Miss, 40.
Shadforth, Colonel, to his wife and
children, 82.

Shaftesbury, Earl of, 209.
Shakespeare, 212.

'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.
to Cottle, 73.

's Life and Letters of Cowper, 55.
Spanish Letter, 225.

Spectator, The, 45, 121.

Speke, Letter on the death of Captain,

91.

Spelling and handwriting, 203.
Sprague's epistolary fraud, 165.
Squirearchical distinction, 179.
Stanley, Dean, 209.

his Life of Dr. Arnold, 76.
Lord (now Earl of Derby), 200.
Statesmen, Good writing of British,

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Taylor, Isaac, 210.

Jeremy, 20.

Tom, 215.

Telegraph, Extended use of the, 192.
Temperament and handwriting, 219.

Sir John, his numerous distinc- Temple, Sir William, his long sen-

tions, 181.

'Sir' and 'Madam,' 176.

Sixteenth century letters, 18, 19.
Sleat to Glengarry, 100.

tences, 153.

Tennyson, Alfred, 210.

Testimonials, Clerical, 160.

Thackeray, William M., 210, 215.

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EDINBURGH: T. CONSTABLE,
PRINTER TO THE QUEEN, AND TO THE UNIVERSITY.

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