Autograph letter signed : London, to Mrs. Bodichon, "Thursday" [n.d.].
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Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith, 1827-1891
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Procter, Adelaide Anne, 1825-1864
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Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986
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