He did not claim to have invented it, for he knew of the monkish acrostics; but for six months he had amused his friends with his revival before he showed them to Mark Lemon.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann
This question called forth several answers, and made a good deal of talk; but it was finally decided that there could be acrostics in prose as well as in rhyme; and Mr. Burrows asked,- "How many understand now what an acrostic is?"
"Tip Lewis and His Lamp"
Pansy
The acrostics lay in a great white heap on Mr. Burrows' desk, not a name written on any of them.
"Tip Lewis and His Lamp"
Pansy