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                "inscription": "inscribed in brown ink, on carpet: du Maurier",
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                "inscription": "inscribed, in brown ink, lower margin: Nincompoopians / (Surfeited with excesses of Cultchah,\" Prigsby and his friends are now going in for extreme simplicity)/ Prigsby - I consider the words of \"Little Boy Blue\" finer than anything Shelley evah wrote!\" Recites them) /Muffington - \"Quite so! And Schubert nevah composed anything quite so precious as the Tune!\" (Tries to hum it)/ (Chorus: \"How supreme!\"",
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                "inscription": "inscribed, upper left margin in graphite: 20 (encircled)",
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                "inscription": "inscribed, upper left margin in graphite: 20 (encircled)",
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                "inscription": "inscribed, left margin,and on bust, in brown ink: ANTINOUS",
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                "inscription": "inscribed, upper right margin, in brown ink: \u00bd page / Sorry to be so late - I send you cornhill [?] drawing - send tomorrow / (Tuesday) at 1 P.M. for socials / Initials /  I write to you for proof of almanac legends, but have not / received them. Please send them.",
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