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Bibliographic information
| Title | Speakers, Singers and Stammerers |
| Author | Frederick Helmore |
| Publisher | Joseph Masters, 1874 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 28 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 114 pages |
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