PUNCH,
OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
Vol. 101.
November 28, 1891.
LETTERS TO ABSTRACTIONS.
No. VII.—TO VANITY.
DEAR VANITY,
Imagine my feelings when I read the following letter. It lay quite innocently on my breakfast-table in a heap of others. It was stamped in the ordinary way, post-marked in the ordinary way, and addressed correctly, though how the charming writer discovered my address I cannot undertake to say; in fact, there was nothing in its outward appearance to distinguish it from the rest of my everyday correspondence. I opened it carelessly, and this is what I read:—