Inscriptions Watch. Have you got Inscriptions?
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Nov 2023
5:17pm, 7 Nov 2023
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fetcheveryone
I get most of my reading books second hand. This means that sometimes I get lucky and there’s an inscription inside the cover. I like to imagine the two people that the book brought together, but then what led the recipient to give the book away. I’ve just finished George Orwell’s Why I Write which is a collection of essays including the title one. Inside the cover was this: In this case I imagine Yandell hides an unspoken love for Carr, and that the latter inspired the former in their journalistic career. Got any interesting ones on your shelf? |
Nov 2023
5:51pm, 7 Nov 2023
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HowFar?
This was in one of the Michael Rosen books I bought 2nd hand, for reading to my class. "Can we have the funny book?" they sometimes plead when we have a few minutes with nothing else to do, but have a good laugh. I hope Lalitha enjoyed it as much as my crew do. |
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Nov 2023
6:05pm, 7 Nov 2023
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fetcheveryone
That’s lovely 
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Nov 2023
12:02am, 8 Nov 2023
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♪♫ Synge ♪♫
I can share one or two. Here’s the first. This is from a three-volume pictorial Bible which I bought in a second-hand book shop in Bristol about 30 years ago. It was evidently in the possession of several members of the Coleridge family (but not Samuel Taylor Coleridge!) and the final name is Alice Mary Coleridge (1846-1907). She has a Wikipedia entry and was a promoter of education for women, Wikipedia noting that she was an “instigator” of Abbots Bromley School for Girls. |
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Nov 2023
12:14am, 8 Nov 2023
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♪♫ Synge ♪♫
Here’s one more for now. This was in my maternal grandmother’s collection of travel books. Can anyone decipher the inscription? (I can’t!) |
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Nov 2023
12:17am, 8 Nov 2023
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♪♫ Synge ♪♫
Staring at it now. … with best wishes and warm congratulations … ? |
Nov 2023
12:22am, 8 Nov 2023
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Hibeedeb
it says “with best wishes and warm congratulations” above the book title and I *think* it says “from the author Annie” under the title
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Nov 2023
5:39am, 8 Nov 2023
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fetcheveryone
Is it Michael Rosen again?
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Nov 2023
8:36am, 8 Nov 2023
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♪♫ Synge ♪♫
Good work, Hibeedeb! Yes, I think you’re right. I never thought of googling, but the author seems to be Anne Brassey, so Annie (or Anni?) would fit. How about the rest? Could it be to Major someone? |
Nov 2023
8:45am, 8 Nov 2023
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Diogenes
That's the worst writing I've ever seen
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