It is very near eleven o'clock, and you know that I am a very dry
Writer. I only wish to tell you that I am well, and that I hope you
are so.
How do you like Sir John Dalrymple?[140] I hope Bricknall is not
idle, and should think it high time for him to have done.
I am, dear Madam,
Most truly yours,
E. G.
[140] Sir John Dalrymple published in 1771 the two first volumes
of his _Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland_. His style was
parodied by Dr. Johnson, who said, "Nothing can be poorer than
his mode of writing; it is the mere bouncing of a schoolboy!"
105.
_To his Stepmother._
Pall Mall, May the 4th, 1771.