 As late as the 1900s, Lord Frederic Hamilton states that he attended a party at which each guest dressed up as a character from the book.Although the book was popular, some scraps of evidence have survived suggesting that readers did not always interpret it as Sherwood would have wanted.Lord Hamilton writes, for instance, that "there was plenty about eating and drinking; one could always skip the prayers, and there were three or four very brightly written accounts of funerals in it."