"Only a Circular".

Woodville Examiner, Volume XX, Issue 37220, 16 September 1904, Page 1 (Supplement)

"Only a Circular".

A*\ ARTICLE litftl 1 I{D TMU.d T'HL CAisi'E-PAPEu ILiAixLi. il. in just tue kind oi ining main ui is constantly receive by pom' mm mmr -nopeiieu uuo lac Hii'.c [Kipi-r si.cn. Ukl ouu el ilie last tilings in. the m.nd viiere one would expect lo lh, a eiiteruuung reading or material lor an iuoieming article. And yer a we lake the tiouUc to ojien lib particular circular, wliicn prorce, lo a catalogue* oi autograph letter*, a apid glance over its page* win a,ow aat a is Clouded witn intimate gimq oi men and women wnoso name* are housoliold words, m their most unconventional moods. 'Here*, lor instance it is Ao. V'Ti in tiie catalogue—i.s an ,-x----uacr Irom a letter written by Joseph liume, tin- serious, in a moment of in . r oln,) to Charles Lamb: "Hazutt, tayt, time on a morning he eats two plates mil ol buttered toast. That's a. good ono I Jnive. Jiim there: I know t-Jial he scarcely, when ho was not in love, ever ate any breakfast. He is made to my that he lias employed his great mind n> writing double entendres! Jiy the way, double entendres from a man in loveV’ Contrast this epistolary frivolity by a grave historian with the pat hot* of a letter from Grimaldi, whose clowning once made the world so gay. When declining an invitation for Christmas, fat'd, owing to illness, lie writes, sadly, "Mo griiinin ,j ' now for poor old Joey!—none. . . “ i don t think I shall see many more Christmases.” In an interesting letter written by Dickem-t in 18fjti (price four guineas) lie says, referring^to his reading of • 'Oliver Twist’’: "You have no idea of the dill*. cuky of getting m the end of Site*; my .hair fellow, believe me, no audience on earth could bo held for ten minute* after the girl s death. Give them time and they would bo revengeful lor having such a strain put upon them.” .\o. 200 i* a delightful letter addressed b\ Coleridge to "Dear JBessie,’’ anu relating to the sending of some verses ;o one of Bcvesie’s friends. "behold he writes, "just fourteen lines of sensibility for your fr.end, my fair but unknown petitioner. Had I bur known tin- look* ot the. lovdy Incognita, tae odour oi her hair and eyed I mignt have accommodated my verses to tire circumstances'. ... I nope I shad got a sight of you during the holidays, for your ordinary residence is like the temple oi tiie good goddess at Home, whereunto no male* were admitted, and 1 am hen in r a doctor nor a parson.” On anot nor page oi our catalogue wo find Myron writing alms about, his little (hi agutei : I wrote some time ago to Kdgecombe. desiring Jam to brad daughter Ailegra directly to mo at Mol- < d'u- . . . lam impatient to see mv chid, and wad ] lor to be sent immediately : and in Xo. 89 we ctet a, glimpse oi Moswell in romantic mood. 'ln tiie lirst place,” Johnson’s biographer writes, "the Irish heiress whom I went io_ set- at Lainduiw turned out io be the huest ereature that I ever beheld, a penoct Arcadian shephercie-s not seventeen ; -o that, instead of tie soml piaim of fortune-hunting, I thought ut notlung but the enchanting revelries oi gallantry. It was quite a fairvtale.” Robert Southey, in a letter from Keswick iii IhOj, has a ring at Monapart (as he spells it). "You arc a soldier by this time.” lie writes to John Wav. I. too, shall lire away a: Monapart, and perhaps hit him, for ho reads the Morning Pint and Cowper. in a letter priced live guineas, writes; "I had tno mortification to learn last week l hat . the season being -o far advanced, my bookseller thought it would be throwing away the effusions ci mv genius to publish thorn at present. In the beginning of tiie ensuing w inter,' therefore, you may expect to see me m print." Disiaeli. in 184!), writes in reference to one ot his speeches : “The men returning to the House when, d was 1 leaking up Glad, and Lab. both sranua.g while the cheers after I bad sat ir 'f resounded. Palmerston told Cartwright, that he nrvrr remembered a more amusing scene, the way I brought the men back, as it I said 'Halloa! yon fellow:-, come back there!”' In miter Xo. 11l we Hud Carlyle writing to a correspondent. "It'll Mr. Keane iiiat we now depend upon him. . . . that he need notspare lobaeeo. for I myself am a smoker.'' Dickens writes: "f am desperately hard up just now, having oniv written on chapter of 'Xiekleb.y’ number three. I hope to make a gtr it dash to-morrmv, however, and to pr ->-fl at. rail-road pare”; and Jenny' Lind, referring 1e iter native pace and );*-•• girlhood, says, in a letter winch *n ;y be had for the small sum of nine and sixpence. "Ob. could we our bring back our days of sweet ch ddhootl. and begin afresh—and differently ’’