Extracts from the diary of Roger Payne.

  • Roger Payne
Date:
1928
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Extracts from the diary of Roger Payne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have been shredded into little flut¬ tering paper windmills to amuse the young Israelites m the purlieus of Rag-fair—one starts with horror at the bare supposition of such a pro¬ fanation ! Rofler by his nuncupative will de¬ vised the said Manuscript to his pro¬ tector and kind master Benevolus, who had occasionally granted him a license of free indulgence in Carbuncle’s snug back parlour. Our next Anniversary will be a memorable day— Roger Payne’s Diary is now print¬ ing under my direction on superfine grand-eagle, exclusively for the mem¬ bers of our enlightened club. Eluci¬ dative of the subject I intend to draw a parallel, in the manner of Plutarch,
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