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| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988. |
| NUMBER: | 4471 |
| AUTHOR: | Anonymous |
| QUOTATION: | Mr Holmes thanks you for your letter. At the moment he is in retirement in Sussex, keeping bees. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Reply of a bank at 221B Baker Street, London, to 40 or so letters addressed daily to fictional sleuth Sherlock Holmes, quoted in US News & World Report 19 Jan 87 |
| SUBJECTS: | Humankind: Humor & Wit |
| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. Copyright © 1988 by James B. Simpson. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | ||||
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