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Reference code
MSPB/86
Title
Letter from Austin Dobson to A. J. Munby
Date(s)
- 11 Oct. 1883 (Creation)
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1 sheet, 1 calling card
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The book was the gift of A. J. Munby, 2 May 1910.
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Board of Trade, S.W. -- Has a few copies of his new selection of verses on large paper for 12/6 and wonders if Munby wants one or knows someone who does; would have sent it to him but intends to give him another work in thanks for a pleasant Sunday in "No=Man's=land." Accompanied by Dobson's calling card and a cutting of the poem "The Toyman" from The Saturday Review 28 Jan. 1888.
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Note
Tipped onto the front endpaper of Dobson's Old-World Idylls and Other Verses (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1883), in the Munby Collection (Munby.c.44), with calling card pasted to the endpaper and clipping inside back cover.