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- Good morning, John.
- Good morning.
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We should like to express our appreciation
in some way...
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...so we are sending by book post today...
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...a little book which I hope you will like.
:40:25
I remember you asked me for a volume
of Elizabethan love poems.
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This is the nearest I can get to it.
:40:53
To Helene Hanff with best wishes
and thanks for many kindnesses...
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...from all at 84 Charing Cross Road.
London, April, 1951.
:41:13
To all at 84 Charing Cross Road:
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Thank you for this beautiful book.
:41:20
I've never owned a book with pages
edged in gold.
:41:24
Would you believe it arrived
on my birthday?
:41:29
Too bad you were so over-courteous
and put the inscription on a card...
:41:33
...instead of on the flyleaf.
:41:35
It's the bookseller in you all.
You were afraid you'd decrease its value.
:41:40
You'd have increased it for this owner...
:41:43
...and possibly for future owners.
:41:46
I love inscriptions on flyleaves
and notes in margins.
:41:50
I like the comradely sense
of turning pages someone else turned...
:41:54
...and reading passages someone long gone
has called my attention to.
:41:59
Why didn't you sign your names?