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Leigh Hunt et al : The Examiner

Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (December 1806): 'We had the Examiner yesterday. Mr. Hunt's jokes are really wretched. I am more convinced than ever that jokes are the Rocks upon which 9 understandings out of 10 split. When he is serious and impudent his writing often seems to me to be very good, but the Turtle, the sauce etc. in his remarks upon Ld. Ellenborough font Pitie. I wish there was a House of Correction somewhere for people who cut bad jokes.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Devonshire family     Print: Serial / periodical

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