NAME: Adelaide Hawkesmont Ceauşescu
NICKNAMES: Nibby
TITLES: None
SIGNIFICANCE: Mr Ceauşescu is the literary force in London’s north. Author of such classics as “Roger’s Debasement” and “My Journeys to Heathen Tangiers, 1841-1843, 1844, 1846, 1846, 1847-1849, 1851″, he has made a name for himself in local public life, especially among the disadvantaged young men of the district, who he will often pay a reasonable fee to that they may stand in his parlour and intellectually “model” for his muse. User of opium and gin. Rumoured to have gone through three valets in the past six months.
Lettres
Wherein the Author reflects upon certain topical & personal issues of the Day.
From “Chook’s Peerage: Eccentrics, Odd Ducks and Rare’r-do-wells of London” (1852), under “C”
Penned upon the 17th of April, 2006
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Madam C was heard to remark,
Upon the 17th of April, 2006 at 10:45 pm,
Cockfoster can confirm that rumour; it seems that Mr Ceauşescu is possessed of personal habits that range from appalling to terrifying. His unhealthy fascination with toadskins and their unusual application has resulted in the permenant psychological traumatising of one of the kitchen staff – little Betty hasn’t spoken a word to this very day…