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Add. MS a/355/3/7
Title
Letter from R. W. Chapman to R. B. McKerrow
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- 30 June 1926 (Creation)
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1 single sheet
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Clarendon Press, Oxford.—Discusses the sizes of the type.
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Transcript
The Clarendon Press, Oxford
30:6:26
My dear McKerrow
Mitto secundas intentiones. Do you say that the chapter-titles shd now be taken down one size? Something depends on their average length.
In this Style, 360 pages, dont {2} 84 appendix. I dont know why I am so Macaronic this morning.
Yrs
R. W. Chapman
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At the head is the reference ‘3249’. There is a tick in the bottom right-hand corner.
{1} ‘I send our second attempt’ (Lat.), i.e. probably Add. MS. a. 355/3/6.
{2} ‘of which’ (Fr.).