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Subject: [Leica] Ted Grant: Cradle Robber!
From: msmall at aya.yale.edu (Marc James Small)
Date: Fri Jun 3 22:05:32 2005
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Ted

In all honesty, Happy Birthday.  There are few alive today who have seen
the sights you have viewed, from C?sar's crossing the Rubincon to Wolfe's
somewhat inept victory outside of Quebec, not to mention your presence at
the defeat of the Armada and your presence besides Nelson at Copenhagen
when he drew his spyglass to his blind eye.  You are a true gem and are to
be cherished for your virtues.  (I have not touched on the negatives in
your career, though my private investigator keeps suggesting that I metnion
the occasion when you spent a dalliance with ... well, we shan't go there,
or the time when you and Bismark almost got yourselves tossed in jail over
that Peruvian mine scheme, and what about that 1903 problem with the
Rafflex Hotel in Singapore?  And I don't find your debauching the Princess
Eulalie of much import, especially as this occurred long before your
marriage and, at this long remove ...  A speckled past you do have.)

You are also one of the finest aucteurs of the optical art I have ever
encountered, and I especially respect you for continuing in this into your
late middle age, when many would have retired.  You are a Canadian national
treasure, if you will allow this guy from "South of the Border" to so opine.

Now, tell us the true tale of yourself and the Duchess of Waverley in 1893,
please!  We all realize that you were driven a-gley by love and lust, but,
still, history demands that you tell the full tale and, after all,
Enquiring Minds Want To Know!  And whatever did happen to the Naval Treaty
she was carrying?  

Happy Birthday, and many more to follow!

Marc


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