SAVED BY BAD WRITING

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 186, 4 May 1929, Page 20

SAVED BY BAD WRITING

To the list of those who have benefited bv poor handwriting might be added the late Lord Curzon (says a writer in the “Glasgow Herald’). In his college days the future Viceroy once committed the all too human slip of posting a couple of letters in the wrong envelopes. One was to a friend, the other to an uncle, and on discovering the mistake, he was horrorstricken, for the epistle intended , for his friend contained a reference to the uncle which he certainly did not wish that worthy relative to see. Great was his relief when the uncle replied: "I have tried to decipher your epistle, but your writing is so atrocious that I cannot make head or tail of it. However, I guess the drift of it to be that you need some money, you rogue, so I enclose a cheque.”