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Carpenter, Edward.
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Churchill, Winston. Letters to Clementine Churchill, September 12, 1909 and September 12, 1948. In Mary Soames, ed.,
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Cibber, Colley.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.
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Connolly, Cyril.
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Cowper, Ernest. Letter to Elbert Hubbard II, 1916. In
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