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those present Mr. A. W. F. Fuller of Sydenham Hill and Mr. 

 Harry G. Beasley of Abbey Wood, Kent, both invited us to inspect 

 their private collections on the following Saturday and Sunday, 

 and in accepting these invitations, the one to luncheon, the other 



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to dinner, we spent several very pleasant and profitable hours. 

 I confess to greater pleasure in inspecting the collection of an ex- 

 perienced and competent gentleman where the history of each 

 thing is fairly in hand than in the mere inspection of a large public 

 museum where the arrangement is generally perfunctory and the 

 individualism of the article is buried in books of accessions or card 



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