Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal
“I was sorry you had to send, but you can imagine
what it is to be unwell and that at the end of the month.
“I was, indeed, so much of an invalid that my walks
were ‘few and far between.’ There never was such an
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‘in-keeper.’ Wherefore if you will favour me
with a call any day, 364 to I I shall be at home.
“I am my dear Sir, yours very truly,
17, Elm Tree Road, Tuesday.
Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
English poet and humorist who wrote for the
London Magazine; he
published
Whims and Oddities (1826) and
Hood's
Magazine (1844-5).