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Saturday Review.
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October 5, 1949.
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To Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.
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London WC2, England.
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Gentlemen:
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Your ad in the Saturday Review
of Literature says...
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...that you specialize in out-of-print books.
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The phrase "antiquarian booksellers"
scares me somewhat...
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...as I equate "antique" with expensive.
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I'm a poor writer
with an antiquarian taste in books.
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All the things I want
are impossible to get over here.
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Except in very expensive, rare editions.
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I enclose a list of my most
pressing problems.
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If you have clean, second-hand copies
of any of the books on the list...
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...for no more than $5 each,
will you consider this a purchase order...
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...and send them to me?
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Very truly yours...
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...Helene Hanff.
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Dear Madam:
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In reply to your letter of October 5...
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...we have managed to clear up
two-thirds of your problem.
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The three Hazlitt essays you want
are contained in the...
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...Nonesuch Press edition
of his Selected Essays.
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And the Stevenson is found in...
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...Virginibus Puerisque.