Punch,  39 (1860), 123.

The Art of Correspondence

Anon

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Mathematics, Language, Gender


    Contends that 'A woman's letter is best expressed by the algebraical "x", for it's a letter that always denotes an unknown quantity'.



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