[ilds] happy 97th birthday

[Charles Sligh]

Do you know what has been upsetting me all day?  To-day is Durrell's 
birthday.  Think of it, the ninety-seventh birthday of codger Durrell.  
I felt I ought to see some signs of it on the national countenance, I 
looked about me eagerly all day.  But there was nothing.

Let _us_ celebrate the old b---'s ninety-seventh birthday, shall we?

[with gratitude and best wishes for the coming years--cf. /Mountolive/]

*Lawrence Durrell, 27 February 1912*

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Charles L. Sligh
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
charles-sligh at utc.edu
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