Here is a noble MS. It has an air of deliberate precision about it
emblematic of the statesman; and a mingled solidity and grace speaking
the scholar. Nothing can be more legible. The words are at proper
intervals--the lines also are at proper intervals, and perfectly
straight. There are no superfluous flourishes. The man who writes thus
will never grossly err in judgment or otherwise. We may venture to
say, however, that he will not attain the loftiest pinnacles of
renown. The paper is excellent--stout yet soft--with gilt edges. The
seal of red wax, with an oval device bearing the initials E. E. and
surrounded with a scroll, on which are legible only the word _cum_ and
the letters c. o. r. d. a.