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Sunday, 9 December 2007

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I hope Grotes gum & petroleum pills are keeping your seasickness down. You would be taken up for carrying about such pills here, now there is so much Fenianising by chemicals which are being prohibited


Sir Charles Adderley to Lord Lyttleton 1867
Posted by Echinatus at 07:56

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