“I am at Bath.
Quin.”
Rich did not deem such a letter a sufficient apology for his unwarrantable conduct, and thus replied to it:—
“Stay there and be hanged.
Rich.”
The Rev. Sydney Smith, in answer to a friend who had forwarded a letter asking him to sit for his portrait, to be executed by Landseer, the gifted painter, whose pictures of dogs made him famous, sent the following reply:—
“Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing?”
Genial Charles Lamb wrote an amusing letter to Haydon, the artist, in answer to an invitation to pay him a visit. The odd address of Haydon was the cause of the note, which ran as follows:—
“My dear Haydon,—I will come, with pleasure, to 22, Lisson Grove, North, at Rossi’s, half-way up, right hand side, if I can find it.
Yours,
C. Lamb.”