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MS location unknown. This fragment quoted in Mare and Percival, Victorian Best-seller, 228.

Have you heard the last variety of American Lion hunting – writing to ask for a bit of one’s dress to put into a literary quilt? I actually had such a request, and while I was laughing at it I came on a book of Miss Alcott’s where the dear Jo – after she had become a noted authoress – has the same entreaty made to her.

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The Letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge(1823-1901) edited by Charlotte Mitchell, Ellen Jordan and Helen Schinske.

URL to this Letter is: https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/yonge/3390/to-an-unknown-person-2

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