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6 These letters were not published.

7 The poem was eventually published in 1932 without the dedication to Edith Sitwell under the title "Clemence Isaure."

8 English comedian famous for his miming of a hypnotized singer.

9 Mr. Phibbs is Geoffrey Phibbs, who changed his name to Geoffrey Taylor in 1930. For an account of the strange events of 1929 involving the quartet of Robert Graves, Nancy Nicholson, Laura Riding, and Geoffrey Phibbs, see Martin Seymour-Smith's Robert Graves: His Life and Works, 153-185.

10 See The Correspondence of Johnathan Swift, ed. Harold Williams, vol. 3:242.

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