Sir,--It is tolerably obvious that your correspondent "Drury's"
is suffering from hallucinations of the most virulent type.
_Maxima debetur pueris reverentia_ is all very well, but facts
are facts. There may have been many pseudo-Jobeys, but the real
original was born in the year of the Great Fire of London and
died in 1745. He was already installed in the reign of WILLIAM
III., and was the first to introduce Blenheim oranges to the
Etonian palate. He was an under-sized man, about five feet five
inches high, with a pale face and hooked nose and always wore a
woollen muffler, which we called "Jobey's comforter." To
represent him as belonging to the Victorian age is an
anachronism calculated to make the angels weep.