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I have had curious MSS. to read this
week, one a most fascinating book of
Fairy Tales, by a Scotch Episcopalian
clergyman, who hails from a place called
Drumtochty, near Fordoun. Then I had
one of Carmen Sylva, the Queen of
Roumania, sent by her private
secretary. I got a curious note on
Saturday from a lady, (L. Dougall,
the authoress of The Zeit-Geist), asking me to
sign my name in a copy of Sir Quixote
for the Blenheim bazaar, as there was to
be a collection of autographed books by