Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post.

 

Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post.
--
Telegram to the Prince of Wales, declining a summons to dine.
--
Quoted in R. Nevill, The World of Fashion, 1837-1922 (1923), ch. 5

 

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