Item 17 - Note from R. W. Chapman to R. B. McKerrow

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Clarendon Press, Oxford.—Comments on a passage about cancels.

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The Clarendon Press, Oxford
4 January 1927

Cancels

Do you say quite enough about recorded cancellata? The chief interest of cancels is in the discovery of the original state; I have myself found some half-dozen in the 18C—apart from books in which their occurrence is quite common (i.e. when the cancel was made some time after publication).

RWC

R. B. McKerrow, Esq.

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Typed, except initials and a correction. At the head is the reference ‘Pkt. 158/RF’ (altered from ‘Pkt. 428/RF’).