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could the latter, I think, have been developed from \t, while the si<jnatuio 

 appears to have been copied from a genuine signature of Eense lat~er, and 

 I^robal'ly nuicb later, than IfeiiS, after he had ceased to make the exaggerated 

 nourish at the end of B. 



I am going up to tl«e British Museum on Wednesday and will show the 

 docuiuetiis, if I may, to Mr. Gilson and get his opinion. 



Two days later, Nov. 19, Sir George wrote : — 



I return the documents, which I have shown to Mr. Gilson, Keeper of MSS. 

 at the British Museum. He agrees with me that the contract is spurious. 



5. Advertisements for the BoolcUt dated 1849. 



In the course of a letter written Aug. 7, 191;^, Sir George 

 Warner had made the following suggestions : — 



How would it be to advertise for further copies of the pamphlet; for, if 

 b\M were printed, others almost certainly exist somewhere, and the date of 

 acquisitimi in some Ciises mi^ht be recorded or be otherwise ascertainable? 



Siicli atteuipls have now been made. 



Dr. Putnam very kindly adve.tised for a copy of the 1S49 

 bookler, but without success, as explained iu his letter of Yeh. VA 

 1914:— 



We advertised for Sleeper's "Shall we have Common Sense?" in the 

 ' Bo'ikseller, 2sewsdealer and Statiuner,' and also in the ' Publishers' Weeklv,' 

 on November lU, 1913, but no reply of any sort has been received to the 

 advertisements. Our failure to find by this means a copy of the edition of 

 fiOO copies supposed to have been issued 65 years ago would uot appear iier se 

 to argue such an issue as improbable. 



With regret at our inability to aid you further in this matter. 



Mrs. Endicott also kindly advertised in November, 1913, for 

 information concerning the pamphlet in the ' Boston Trans- 

 script,' and has recently drawn my attention to another advertise- 

 ment to the same effect which appeared at the beginning of hist 

 ]\Iarch in the same paper. Xo reply w&s evoked by either of 

 these. 



6. The Entries in G. W. Sleeper's Bianj for 1S49. 



The diary, kindly sent to me by Mr. J. Y. Sleeper, was a little 

 bound volume for the year 1849, so arranged that each of its 

 pages held s])aces for the entries on three dtij's. The entries had 

 been struck out, sometimes with pen, sometimes pencil, but 

 were still legible. Under the date Thursday, April 26, was the 

 entry "Copyright 'oO," and under Friday, May 18, " Bense 

 Pamphlets S3U.U0." If other details of the ex[)enditure of a 

 prosperous business ra;in, as Sleeper was then, had been entered 

 with equal care, the diary would have been far more crowded than 

 as a matter of fact it was. The page including April 26 held no 

 entry e.vcept the " Copyright," the opposite page held two entries ; 

 the page including May IS held three entries iu addition to the 

 ** Pamphlets," the opposite page two entries. 



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