ho-hing-tong

Updated: May 13, 2025

Paul's church is a heap of ruins; the Monument isn't half so high as you knew it, divers parts being successively taken down which the ravages of time had rendered dangerous; the horse at Charing Cross is gone, no one knows whither, and all this has taken place while you have been settling whether Ho-hing-tong should be spelled with a or a . For aught I see, you had almost as well remain where you are, and not come, like a Struldbrug, into a world where few were born when you went away.

Charles Lamb - The Best Letters of Charles Lamb