"I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves."
— Charles Lamb

January 1, 1970

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To the Editor of the Every-Day Book; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)