Letters of Thomas J. Wise to John Henry Wrenn: A Further Inquiry Into the Guilt of Certain Nineteenth-century ForgersA. A. Knopf, 1944 - 591 pages |
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Page 235
... course I will accept the bound one ( ex Hake purchase ) , and I thank you very heartily for it . You are giving me what I know to be a very great rarity , and what I feel sure will prove before long to be a book of very consid- erable ...
... course I will accept the bound one ( ex Hake purchase ) , and I thank you very heartily for it . You are giving me what I know to be a very great rarity , and what I feel sure will prove before long to be a book of very consid- erable ...
Page 276
... course I immediately suggested that if he would turn out his old copy a good home was waiting to shelter it in Chicago ! Gosse promised to look it up , and to let me have it for you . Two days later it came , ac- companied by the first ...
... course I immediately suggested that if he would turn out his old copy a good home was waiting to shelter it in Chicago ! Gosse promised to look it up , and to let me have it for you . Two days later it came , ac- companied by the first ...
Page 541
... course Blank has never made any application to me for the pam- phlets : he is perfectly well aware of the fact that to do so would only be a waste of time and effort ! I spent yesterday afternoon again at " The Pines . ” Watts - Dunton ...
... course Blank has never made any application to me for the pam- phlets : he is perfectly well aware of the fact that to do so would only be a waste of time and effort ! I spent yesterday afternoon again at " The Pines . ” Watts - Dunton ...
Contents
The Wrenn Library comes to Texas 3 | 3 |
The WiseWrenn friendship | 11 |
Carter and Pollards exposé | 37 |
Copyright | |
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