Dear Reds " Mr. Attorney Generall Noy was a great lawyer and a great humorist, There is a world of merry stories in him..... He caused the Breeches of a Bencher ef Lincoln's Inne to he taken-in by a Tayler and made him believe that he had the drepsy." From The Life and Times of John Aubrey “cited from Ee re ee tart Meee the Original manuscripts _ and Sith an Introductiox by Hmhn Oliver Lawsen Dick, whom I talked with a couple of years age here in New York, and who is one of the most charming young men I ever saw. But_could your merry Dector have ever ES2¢ this yarn? I den't think Aubrey's mSS.- have ever. been published before, certainly not this fragment. Yeurs etc., ; Octeber 13, 1952 Ci We