[Leica] Ted Grant and Rugby

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

Marc James Small wrote:

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>Some years later, or so the story goes, it was your suggestion which caused
>A Conan Doyle to make rugby the game of choice for his Irish reporter,
>Mallone, in the Professor Challenger books.  According to the Doyle
>Archives, he sent you a fulsome letter of thanks for the concept, as it
>played out so well in convincing Lord John Roxbury that Mallone was the lad
>to take along on that rather odd trek to the Lost World.
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You should know, Marc. There are simply too many things give you away as 
being Professor Challenger in person, the vast depth of knowledge, often 
irate, particularly in the presence of fools etc etc. Or maybe Verne's 
Professor, held so long in the Nautilus by the mysterious Captain 
Nemo..........Your Canadian companion was perhaps ......... but then 
again, maybe not.

>You really are a treasure.  Your depth of chronological knowledge 
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Is he Balsamo? Cagliostro?
Douglas

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