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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">.03 Cubic Feet</extent>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1919/1919">c. 1919</unitdate>
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<p>This collection contains one original typed humerous in a handmade book. The book is bound with a faded silk tie at the spine, and made up of clippings, magazine pages, typed pages, and illustrations. A humorous epistolary story, it is told by a soldier stationed at Camp Lee outside Petersburg, Va., who falls in love with the voice of a woman who sells him a book over the phone from the longtime local booksellers T. S. Beckwith &amp; Co.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="https://lccn.loc.gov/n80107363" source="lcsh">Petersburg (Va.)</geogname>
    <subject authfilenumber="https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85044453" source="lcsh">Epistolary fiction</subject>
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