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Others of his family would occasionally receive elab- 

 orate pieces of nonsense, of which I give a couple of speci- 

 mens. The following is to his youngest daughter: 



ATHENAEUM CLUB, May 17, 1892. 

 DEAREST BABS As I was going along Upper Thames Street 



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just now, I saw between Nos. 170 and 211 (but you would like 

 to know what I was going along that odorous street for. Well, 

 it was to enquire how the pen with which I am now writing 



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(you see it is a new-fangled fountain pen, warranted to cure 



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the worst writing and always spell properly) works, because it 

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