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Dear Red:
"Mr. Attorney Generall Noy was a great lawyer and a great humorist, There is a world of merry stories in him ..... He caused the Breeches of a Bencher of Lincoln's Inne to be taken-in by a Taylor and made him believe that he had the dropsy."
From The Life and Times of John Aubrey Edited from The Original manuscripts and with an Introduction by John Oliver Lawson Dick, whom I talked with a couple of years ago here in New York, and who is one of the most charming young men I ever saw. But could your merry Doctor have ever read this year? I don't think Aubrey's mss. have ever been published before, certainly not this fragment. Yours etc.,
Katherine Anne
October 13, 1952