I recently purchased a copy of The World’s Great Letters at a local book sale for $1.50. The book was published in 1940 and contains the text of letters written by:

• Alexander the Great
• Saint Jerome
• Christopher Columbus
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Michaelangelo
• Henry VIII
• Benjamin Franklin
• Thomas Jefferson
• George Washington
• Thomas Paine
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• John Keats
• Robert Browning
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Dostoevsky
• Charles Dickens
• Abraham Lincoln
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Emily Dickinson
• Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• William Randolph Hearst
• Mark Twain
• George Bernard Shaw
• Lenin

As if purchasing a collection of such letters for $1.50 were not already a bargain, I found a postcard advertising The Sporting News. The text of the postcard reads as follows:

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