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R.E Prothero
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: International Express Train Co monthly guide
'I think the enclosed is worth your notice. On making a search, there is no "enclosure". But the International Express Train Service Co, who have an office in Cockspur St, issue a month's guide for the information of travellers which is circulated [two illegible words]. It contains a comparative table of the prices and [illegible, underlined, possibly "routes"] of Baedecker's and Murray's Guides, much to your disadvantage & certainly incorrect.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: R.E. Prothero
Ovid : Tristia IV
'On my stand-up table is a post-card & letter from Monsignor Dore of America asking for a reference to the place where "Virgilium vidi tantum" originally occurs in Latin literature. Strangely enough, I have come across it here. It is in Ovid ("Tristia" IX. 10.51)
