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Like Neil, I read F&N in manuscript, and had the same experience with the vocabulary and to some extent the usage as he had with events and newspaper articles. Almost everything I thought of as "too modern" was perfectly in period; the main exception, which did not survive into the published version, was the word "Hedonist," which has an unusually specific date of coinage. There were also a number of elusive uses of prepositions and adverbs, mostly in Richard's and Kitty's letters, that seemed wrong to me and weren't readily apparent in such documents of the period I had to hand, but were hard to replace, and I can't recall what happened to those.

In the end these allegedly modern bits became part of the charm of the book, like finding out as a child that the Romans had central heating.

Pamela

A belated happy anniversary to you both. You're four years ahead of David and me. I am confident that we will never catch up.

Pamela

Goodness, talk about mingling delight and dole. My condolences to Teresa. And a Skylark! Whee! That is so cool.

Pamela

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