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Observer, Volume XXXV, Issue 49, 14 August 1915, Page 24

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A.Me.M.—-Sorry cannot advise. "W.G.B.—-Good start. Try again. C. McTavish. —Sorry, must decline. C.K.S.—-Many thanks. Most acceptable. Taneatttea. —Search does not discover stuff you say was seat. "Tramp Tramp."—War poets will do everything but go to the war. R.L. —A yell six pages long—enough to deafen the waste paper basket. .303. —You can serve the gentleman best by keeping quiet on the matter. Tarn.—Just "dashed it off," did you? Gray took 20 years to polish his "Elegy." O'G. —(1) The article was first published by the "Literary Digest." (2) New York. Amen.—The society you name is deliberately permitting the entrance of men of German extraction. T.A.D.—Destroyed. Cannot undertake to shepherd rejected! MSB. for .return of which stamps are not sent. M.D.—Sorry you will not permit rewriting, so that the uninitiated could understand. Useful stuff, quite spoilt by medical technology. Mamie. —She who does not write with ease and naturally should cease writing and take to cooking. A bad' writer always gets worse with experience. C.C—lf the person you name was an officer of the Grenadier Guards at the date you mention you would find his name and rank in the Army List of any month during his service. If the list is not available you could write to the adjutant *of the regiment. He would be jealous of the reputation of the regiment, and might give you a possible denial.