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The marks of a reader, such as one imagines for oneself in dreams, thoughtful, critical, and kind
An anonymous review of the Child’s Garden of Verses, appearing in the Pall Mall Gazette for March 1885, gave RLS so much pleasure that he wrote (in the four words, ‘Now who are you?’) to inquire the name of its … Continue reading
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