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Here are two queries for our learned members. The first is embarrassing because every American should recognize it, but I'm stumped.

 

1. In the first Letter that Kipling wrote from San Francisco in 1889 (XXIII in FStoS), he states: "Oliver Wendell Holmes says that Yankee schoolmarms, the cider, and the salt codfish of the Eastern States are responsible for what he calls a nasal accent." --Where did Holmes say this?

 

2. In Letter XXXIII, describing Kipling's return from swimming in the Great Salt Lake, a "commercial traveller" calls his attention to other train passengers. "The great open railway car held about a hundred men and maidens, 'coming up with a song from the sea.'" --Quotation by whom?

 

John Radcliffe