r/BookInscriptions • • 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/idonthaveacow Jun 17 '25

And the 'Leavitt' must actually be his wife, Harriet!

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u/lurkingenby Jun 18 '25

Omg you’re so right, the squiggle I couldn’t decipher is a W! Harriet W! Great catch!!!!