DEAN STANLEY'S CALIGRAPHY.
Of the late Dean Stanley's handwriting, a writer in Good Words says: — "Worse penmanship —more scraggy and inscrutable— could not be imagined. He used to admit, pathetically, his failures in this department, although never willing to acknowledge blame if it could be laid on someone else. I once received a letter from him a week old, and that had travelled far and wide ere reaching me at 69, Inverness Terrace, W., to which he had addressed it. 'Try Holloway Road,' had been added by some ingenious official, I sent the Dean the envelope as a curiosity, and he wrote back —quite ignoring the illegibility of his 'Inverness Terrace'—'l see that my address was right, as far as it went; "Holloway Road" was added by the postmasters.' I remember him telling us at the Sons of the Clergy dinner in Glasgow, how the 'Halo of the Burning Bush' had come back from the printers transmuted into 1 the ' Horn of the Burning Beast.'"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6249, 26 November 1881, Page 7
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165DEAN STANLEY'S CALIGRAPHY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6249, 26 November 1881, Page 7
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