Note 191 — APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XXIV.
Reading edition
“Macaulay wrote to me at Harrow pretty constantly, sealing his letters with an amorphous mass of red wax, which, in defiance of post-office regulations, not unfrequently concealed a piece of gold.”—“The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay.” Second edition. Vol. II., p. 426.—Ed.