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Butler/Section 2 (II)/1/1/6.7
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GB 275 Butler/Section 2 (II)/1/1/6.7
Title
Letter from Samuel Butler to Dr [D.] MacAlister, dated 13 November 1892
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- 13 Nov. 1892 (Creation)
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1 sheet paper
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ALS, addressed from 15 Clifford's Inn E.C. Returns the corrected proof [for his article 'On the Trapanese Origin of the Odyssey', subsequently published in The Eagle, Vol. XVII (pp.353-65)], with an additional paragraph at the end 'which is, I think, calculated to irritate & provoke an answer, and will be highly offensive to Homeric students without giving them a shadow of just ground for taking offence...'.