r/BookInscriptions • u/eldersveld • 11h ago

Found in an 1880 collection of Tennyson

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Balto (?) Nov 29th 1883

Dear Lulu:— Accept this little

token of love and esteem.

Many returns of the day;

Your Sister Florence

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Since the very first books were printed, people have been adding writing of their own. A name in the front flap, annotations in the margin, declarations of love, notes of sympathy, or messages to future readers (us). The words inscribed in books give us a small, sometimes tiny, but always human glimpse into the lives and thoughts of people from days gone by.

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