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Sir: Devotees of that "sublime work" The Young Visiters will recall that "Mr Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him." As Daisy Ashford was only nine when she wrote the book, perhaps there is a universal human gene for 42-ness?
JANE BARRY
Birmingham
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