hopburn

Updated: May 7, 2025

"Will you be so good as to inform me, through the medium of your invaluable paper, what was the exact area devastated by the Great Fire of London?" that kind of thing, you know. Hopburn that's the fellow's name tells me that his predecessor always called the paper Chat-moss, because of the frightful difficulty he had in filling it up each week.

George Gissing - New Grub Street