THE DUKE’S OYSTERS.
LONDON, Nov. 29,
The letters of many famous people will.be sold at Sotheby’s in the coming season. One ol particular _ interest, written by the Duke of Wellington, reveals his grave concern over a consignment of oysters: “Don’t send them by Coleman or he will eat more than his share before he reaches camp. Nor by any of your great eaters, or I shall get none of them.”
A letter from Charles Dickens shows the novelist in a rage over a communication which he describes as “extraordinarily insulting and containing various statements about the origin of Pickwick which are utterly false from beginning to end.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 30, 4 January 1927, Page 7
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107THE DUKE’S OYSTERS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 30, 4 January 1927, Page 7
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