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Thursday.
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Write and tell me about London.
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I live for the day
when I step off the boat train...
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...and feel its dirty sidewalks
under my feet.
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I want to walk up Berkeley Square
and down Wimpole Street...
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...and stand in St. Paul's
where John Donne preached.
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And sit where Elizabeth sat,
refusing to enter the Tower...
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...and places like that.
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A newspaper man I know,
who was in London during the war says...
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...tourists go to England
with preconceived notions...
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...so they find exactly
what they go looking for.
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I told him I'd go looking for the England
of English literature.
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And he said, "Then, it's there."
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Dear Miss Hanff:
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This is to tell you we have in stock
The Oxford Book of English Verse.
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Quite a nice Jonson.
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Printed on India paper,
original blue cloth binding...
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...1905.
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Inscription in ink on the flyleaf,
but a good second-hand copy.
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Price: $2.
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Swinburne.
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We quote before sending,
in case you've already purchased a copy.
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Hardy, limited edition.
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Very nice.
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Some time ago you asked us
for Newman's Idea of a University.
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Very nice indeed.
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Are you interested in a first edition?
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We'll put that aside for Miss Hanff.
:29:41
He has a first edition
of Newman's University for $6!
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"Do I want it?" He asks innocently.
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Dear Frank: Yes, I want it!
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I won't be fit to live with myself.