8 June The literary calendar
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Then let my winds caress thee — Thy comrade let me be — Since naught beside can bless thee Return and dwell with me —
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- Charles Reade: Not stated, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Mary Cholmondeley: No photographer credited., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Penny Rimbaud: Graham Burnett, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Francis Hastings Doyle: Leslie Ward, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Alice Dixon Le Plongeon: Augustus Le Plongeon (1825-1908), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Pamela Frankau: Elliott & Fry, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized