This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1902 Excerpt: ... To "John Allen. Wherstead Lodge, Ipswich.1 June 31 (so) 1834. Dear My Johnny, I have been reading the Spectator since I have been here: and I like ifvery much. Don"t you think it would make a nice book to publish all the papers about Sir Roger de Coverley alone, with illustrations by Thackeray? It is a thing that is wanted: to bring that standard of the old English Gentleman forward out of the mass of little topics, and fashions, that occupy the greater part of the Spectator. Thackeray has illustrated my Undine in about fourteen little coloured drawings--very nicely.... I am here in the country in brave health: rising at six withal: and pruning of rose trees in the garden. Why don"t you get up early? in the summer at least. The next time we meet in town I mean to get an artist to...