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athousanderrors ([personal profile] athousanderrors) wrote2017-09-27 08:01 pm
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yeoldenews: “Excuse this blot but a bee scared

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“Excuse this blot but a bee scared me just then.”

An amazing explanation for smudged ink I came across in an October 1, 1897 letter from Rachel (a teenage girl in finishing school in Philadelphia) to her cousin Jack at Yale.
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