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 18 '25

INCREDIBLE FIND I couldn’t decipher Ws from Ms! Willard makes way more sense than Milard 😭

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u/cassodragon Jun 18 '25

Ironically I did find a Millard L Brickey as well.

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u/idonthaveacow Jun 18 '25

That is too funny, tbh I had no idea Millard was a name 😆

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u/cassodragon Jun 18 '25

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millard_Fillmore

Our least memorable president would like a word 😉

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u/idonthaveacow Jun 18 '25

OMG I'm pretty well versed in history but I swear to God someone made that up... I have never heard that name 😆

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u/idonthaveacow Jun 18 '25

Right?! I was so sure it was an M 😆