MY Dear Sir—Pray return my best thanks to your
father for his little volume. It is
like all of his I have seen, spirited, good humoured, and redolent of the wit
and humour of a century ago. He should have lived with Gay and his set. The Chessiad is so clever that I
relish’d it, in spite of my total ignorance of the game. I have it not
before me, but I remember a capital simile of the Charwoman letting in her
Watchman husband, which is better than Butler’s Lobster turned to Red. Hazard is a grand Character, Jove in his Chair. When you are disposed to leave your one room
for my six, Colebrooke is where it was, and my sister begs me to add that as
she is disappointed of meeting your sister your way, we shall be most happy to
see her our way, when you have an
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When I saw the Chessiad advertised by C. D. the Younger, I hoped it might be yours. What title is left for you—
Charles Dibdin the Younger, Junior.
O No, you are Timothy.
