Unidentified photographer / artist
1881
Form letter: From a Lady to a Gentleman, demanding the return of a Photograph taken from her Album

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Published in "Gaskell's Compendium of Forms, Educational, Social, Legal and Commercial" by George Arthur Gaskell (Chicago: Fairbanks, Palmer & Co., 1881), p.225 in the section on "Love Letters".
 
468 Broad St., June 16, 1879.
 
Ransom Barclay, Esq..
 
Sir : Upon looking over my photograph album this morning, I find that my picture is gone. I am positive it was there when you had the book last evening, and no one has since had it but myself, as I took it to my room after you left.
 
I am surprised that a gentleman should be guilty of so great a rudeness, to use no harsher word, as to appropriate, without permission, what he is quite sure would have been refused to him, and demand from you the return of my property.
 
CORA DICKENSON
 
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