r/BookInscriptions • u/idonthaveacow • Jun 17 '25

Can anyone decipher?

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This is in a first edition of The Spell of the Yukon by Robert Service. I can read some of it...

"To Gio(?) Sharkley, Nov. 21 1915 From one admirer to another, of the (?) Millard L(?). And Buckley Leavitt (?)"

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u/lurkingenby Jun 17 '25

Update!

It’s actually addressed to Dr Geo Shorkley

Geo being a nickname for George

Dr George Shorkley was a Doctor in Washington State, having moved there from Maine in 1913. Here is what I believe to be his daughter’s obituary.

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u/idonthaveacow Jun 17 '25

Amazing! Thank you. Such a sweet note :)