Reader's marks, annotations, and traces across centuries
"The Hound of the Baskervilles"
19th century · Annotated by a monastery librarian
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│ ...The quality of mercy... │
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│ § ◦ │
│ ...and so the passage continues, with the │
│ reader's childish block letters filling the margins... │
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│ ├─────────────────────────────────┤ "important" "false" "comfort" │
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│ [page 355] │
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"The author seems to have known me personally."
Between pages 355 and 356: traces of tobacco ash
"In memory of"
— the summer we met