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Offline Lisa in California

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Re: Help with writing in a book
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 08 July 23 10:13 BST (UK) »
Quote from: ajclarkier on Wednesday 05 July 23 21:40 BST (UK)
Hey everyone, I'm new, thanks in advance for any help. Deciphering writing in a bunch of old family books.

In this one, I have the first initials, and of course the number, but I don't know what to make of the letters in the middle--it looks like "R Nc." or something of the sort but it doesn't make much sense.

What is the writing in the other books?  Is the penmanship similar?
Ellison: Co. Wicklow/Canada       Fowley: Sligo/Canada       Furnival: Lancashire/Canada       Ibbotson: Sheffield/Canada       Lee/DeJongh: Lancashire & Cheshire       Mumford: Essex/Canada       Ovens: Ireland/Canada       Sarge: Yorkshire/Canada             Stuart: Sligo/Canada       Sullivan: Co. Clare/Canada      Vaus: Sussex/Surrey      Wakefield: Tuam or Ballinasloe, Ireland              (Surname: Originated/Place Last Lived)  (Canadians lived in Ontario)

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Re: Help with writing in a book
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 08 July 23 10:38 BST (UK) »
I think it's P[age[ No 554

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Re: Help with writing in a book
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 13 July 23 22:30 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Lisa in California on Saturday 08 July 23 08:57 BST (UK)
Quote from: ajclarkier on Friday 07 July 23 15:40 BST (UK)
…The book is called The Philosophy of Mystery, by Walter Dendy, and is from 1845…

Wow, small world; the Dendy name pops up again (in a thread in which I’ve contributed, not as a result of an internet search).

A friend of mine is a descendant of Walter Cooper Dendy’s sibling.

What a coincidence. Doesn't seem to be much known today, but apparently he was quite a character. The books is weird and wide-ranging in a way that only Victorian books by amateur paranormal explorers tend to be  ;D

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Re: Help with writing in a book
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 13 July 23 22:31 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Lisa in California on Saturday 08 July 23 10:13 BST (UK)
Quote from: ajclarkier on Wednesday 05 July 23 21:40 BST (UK)

What is the writing in the other books?  Is the penmanship similar?

No this seems unique among the other writing.

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Re: Help with writing in a book
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 13 July 23 22:34 BST (UK) »
Quote from: ptdrifter on Saturday 08 July 23 07:48 BST (UK)
Anything to do with Rand McNally , publishers?

Interesting idea but the publisher is Harper & Brothers....

Sort of a fun book if anyone is curious https://archive.org/details/philosophyofmyst03dend/page/n7/mode/2up

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Re: Help with writing in a book
« Reply #14 on: Thursday 13 July 23 22:53 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Andy J2022 on Saturday 08 July 23 10:38 BST (UK)
I think it's P[age[ No 554

Could be..though there are fewer than 500pp here, so it wouldn't be referencing this book....

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Re: Help with writing in a book
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 06 August 23 08:02 BST (UK) »
Hi, just out of left field, the first letters are not H & B, Harper and Brothers, and perhaps a catalogue number? A proof copy or something?
Nicoll, Small - Scotland Dennis - Lincolnshire, Baldwin - Notts. Gordon, Fletcher Deeside

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Re: Help with writing in a book
« Reply #16 on: Sunday 06 August 23 14:15 BST (UK) »
I read it as:
H.P.B. Rd No 554
Thought maybe Registered Number in some form of cataloguing system?
Ray
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