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Rousseau, we remember, mentions such sand as the proper material to be resorted to by one who would be very particular in his correspondence, "employant pour cela le plus beau papier doré, séchant l'écriture avec de la poudre d'azur et d'argent"; and Moore repeats the precept in the example of M. le Colonel Calicot, according to the text of Miss Biddy, in the "Fudge Family in Paris":

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859