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Originally Posted by BetterRed
It's not in the published text of Golden Beeches, which appears to quote the note in full.
Violet probably wrote the date on the outside of the triple-folded note, above the name and address  Demonstrates the fallacy of seeking authenticity, you'll never get it right - leave it to the readers imagination.
But it's fun to play with if it's just for oneself and one learns something in doing it. And it makes a change from disgusting the tortured syntaxes of xhtml, regex et al
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Can't speak to the Golden ones, but in all the copies of The Adventure of the COPPER Beeches (
) I can find, Watson's line right before the quoted text of the letter reads:
"It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and ran thus: "
Yeah, I know some people are REALLY into the authenticity of stuff like that. Anything that seems like it has a passable British accent passes muster for me. I wouldn't know Victorian from Edwardian.