ABSTRACT
I am so sorry it is such ages since I wrote to you and that I have not replied to your very good long letters. Not counting the spelling of course, but then quite famous people like Queen Elizabeth I and Shakespeare spelled very badly. But perhaps that was reasonable when most people didn’t spell at all. Elizabeth wrote very beautifully. The great advantage of not spelling very well was that you could spell as you felt. For example, ‘i thinke hee is a fatte-headed fule’. Much better than ‘I think he is a fat-headed fool’, don’t you think?
