Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentlem…

Virginia Woolf
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Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.1140, Delphi Classics
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