y fellow, brings this.' Always characteristic in thought
and in expression, Lamb was never more so than in the finales to his
letters. 'I do not think your handwriting at all like ----'s,' he says
to Southey; 'I do not think many things I did think.' He winds up a
dog-Latin epistle to Bernard Barton, in 1831, with: 'P.S.--Perdita in
toto est Billa Reformatura.' And to Coleridge he says, with delightful
frankness:

'Write your German as plain as sunshine, for that must correct
itself. You know I am _homo unius linguae_: in English--illiterate,
a dunce, a ninny.'

Sometimes a postscript is unconsciously full of humour, as in the case
of a note written by a certain Mr. O. to a recent Bishop of Norwich:

'Mr. O----'s private affairs turn out so sadly that he cannot have
the pleasure of waiting upon his lordship at his agreeable house on
Monday next.--N.B. His wife is dead.'

THE END.

_Elliot Stock, Paternoster Row, London._

Transcriber's Notes:

Passages in italics are indicated by _underscore_.

Additional spacing after some of the quotes is intentional to indicate
both the end of a quotation and the beginning of a new paragraph as
presented in the original text.

The following misprint has been corrected:
"writting" corrected to "writing" (page 221)

Printer's inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation usage have been
retained.

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