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Dance, George, n.d.

 Item — Box: 7

Scope and Contents

Letter: to Mr. Henry Hall, n.d.

ALS. Letter starts out "Dear common room, by the great Jupiter Serapis, by all the Eagles, Vultures, Lions, Tygers, Alligators, Crocodiles, Rhinoceroses, Elephants and Hippopotami in our World, & by all the wild . . . beasts in every other Planet, by all the Hooded Snakes in all the caverns of all the worlds that belong to all the Suns, which form the Galaxy and by the great fin of the largest Shark, the left eye of the hugest Whale and the right gill of the immense Krakin, I swear! & I take them all to witness, that you directed my Letter to Mrs. Hall; for wch reason she naturally open'd it & read the contents, wch would also have been the case if it had been full of bawdy . . ." A section in the middle is written in a code based on Latin.

Extent

1 items : 3 p. on double leaf

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