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A01403 The secretaries studie containing new familiar epistles: or directions, for the formall, orderly, and iudicious inditing of letters. ... By Thomas Gainsford, Esq. Gainsford, Thomas, d. 1624? 1616 (1616) STC 11523; ESTC S102834 84,541 142

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