Mr. Irving's hand writing is common-place. There is nothing indicative
of genius about it. Neither could any one suspect, from such
penmanship, a _high finish_ in the author's compositions. This style
of writing is more frequently met with than any other. It is a very
usual clerk's hand--scratchy and _tapering_ in appearance, showing
(strange to say)--an eye deficient in a due sense of the
_picturesque_. There may be something, however, in the circumstance
that the epistle to Mr. Miller is evidently written in a desperate
hurry. Paper very indifferent, and wafered.