_Dear Sir_,—Will you oblige me by not writing me any more silly
letters? I really have no time to attend to them.
Your most obedient servant,
[Illustration: Jared Sparks]
JOSEPH A. MILLER, Esq.
Mr. Sparks' MS. has an odd appearance. The characters are large,
round, black, irregular and perpendicular. The lines are close
together, and the whole letter wears at first sight an air of
confusion—of chaos. Still it is not very illegible upon close
inspection, and would by no means puzzle a regular bred devil. We can
form no guess in regard to any mental peculiarities from this MS. From
its tout-ensemble, however, we might imagine it written by a man who
was very busy among a great pile of books and papers huddled up in
confusion around him. Paper blueish and fine—sealed, with the initials
J. S.