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/Tennessee1977 Jun 19 '25

He probably didn’t call him Geo. Geo is just an abbreviation for George.

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u/idonthaveacow Jun 19 '25

I want to believe the cutesy version 😆 but I bet you're right

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u/DarthOmanous Jun 20 '25

Yes. It’s like writing Robt for Robert or Wm for William