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Bret Harte Collection, Accession 5310-aa, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Transfer, 1988 September 21.
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[Harte thanks Payn for the "expedition with which the honorary membership was put through." Harte was serving as the Consul of the United States at Glasgow during this time and he may have been referring to membership in the Rabelais Club in Great Britain . ]