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... Letters , Portraits , Scrap - Books , Engravings , Collections of Stamps or Literary Curiosities Purchased at full market value for Cash by CHARLES LOWE , New - street , Birmingham . Parcels thankfully received , and Cash value sent by ...
... Letters , Portraits , Scrap - Books , Engravings , Collections of Stamps or Literary Curiosities Purchased at full market value for Cash by CHARLES LOWE , New - street , Birmingham . Parcels thankfully received , and Cash value sent by ...
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... Letters , & c . - II . The Virgin Seducer , a True History - III . The Bachelor Keeper , or Modern Rake , by ... letters signed " Pylades " and " Comma " ; letters which passed between Capt . H- and a Lady ; and poems by Suckling and ...
... Letters , & c . - II . The Virgin Seducer , a True History - III . The Bachelor Keeper , or Modern Rake , by ... letters signed " Pylades " and " Comma " ; letters which passed between Capt . H- and a Lady ; and poems by Suckling and ...
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... letter L. A. J. M. 66 was Will you kindly allow me to unsay my words with respect to Mark Lemon having changed his name ? I wrote that such change was " no secret among his friends . " I should have written , often asserted among his ...
... letter L. A. J. M. 66 was Will you kindly allow me to unsay my words with respect to Mark Lemon having changed his name ? I wrote that such change was " no secret among his friends . " I should have written , often asserted among his ...
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... LETTER OF JOSEPH GRIMALDI . - I beg to for- ward an accurate copy of an original holograph letter of the famous comedian Joseph Grimaldi , not before printed nor out of private hands , now in my possession . Except any notes there may ...
... LETTER OF JOSEPH GRIMALDI . - I beg to for- ward an accurate copy of an original holograph letter of the famous comedian Joseph Grimaldi , not before printed nor out of private hands , now in my possession . Except any notes there may ...
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... letter . " Other artists who illustrated this magazine - in which Mr. Edmund Yates began , but did not complete ... Letters left at a Pastrycook's ' ( Ingram , Cooke & Co. , 1853 ) , the first of those shilling railway books " that had ...
... letter . " Other artists who illustrated this magazine - in which Mr. Edmund Yates began , but did not complete ... Letters left at a Pastrycook's ' ( Ingram , Cooke & Co. , 1853 ) , the first of those shilling railway books " that had ...
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