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Add z3998:name-title semantic to some abbreviations
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acabal committed Nov 28, 2023
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<p>I left him going up to bed, and went outside and ordered a carriage to take me down, and there I may say we parted for a considerable time. A cable was waiting for me in the hotel at Las Palmas to go home for business forthwith, and there was a Liverpool boat in the harbour which I just managed to catch as she was steaming out. It was a close thing, and the boatmen made a small fortune out of my hurry.</p>
<p>Now Coppinger was only an hotel acquaintance, and as I was up to the eyes in work when I got back to England, I’m afraid I didn’t think very much more about him at the time. One doesn’t with people one just meets casually abroad like that. And it must have been at least a year later that I saw by a paragraph in one of the papers, that he had given the lump of sheets to the British Museum, and that the estimated worth of them was ten thousand pounds at the lowest valuation.</p>
<p>Well, this was a bit of revelation, and as he had so repeatedly impressed on me that the things were mine by right of discovery, I wrote rather a pointed note to him mentioning that he seemed to have been making rather free with my property. Promptly came back a stilted letter beginning, “Doctor Coppinger regrets” and so on, and with it the English translation of the wax-upon-talc <abbr>MSS.</abbr> He “quite admitted” my claim, and “trusted that the profits of publication would be a sufficient reimbursement for any damage received.”</p>
<p>Now I had no idea that he would take me unpleasantly like this, and wrote back a pretty warm reply to that effect; but the only answer I got to this was through a firm of solicitors, who stated that all further communications with <abbr>Dr.</abbr> Coppinger must be made through them.</p>
<p>I will say here publicly that I regret the line he has taken over the matter; but as the affair has gone so far, I am disposed to follow out his proposition. Accordingly the old history is here printed; the credit (and the responsibility) of the translation rests with <abbr>Dr.</abbr> Coppinger; and whatever revenue accrues from readers, goes to the finder of the original talc-upon-wax sheets, myself.</p>
<p>Now I had no idea that he would take me unpleasantly like this, and wrote back a pretty warm reply to that effect; but the only answer I got to this was through a firm of solicitors, who stated that all further communications with <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Dr.</abbr> Coppinger must be made through them.</p>
<p>I will say here publicly that I regret the line he has taken over the matter; but as the affair has gone so far, I am disposed to follow out his proposition. Accordingly the old history is here printed; the credit (and the responsibility) of the translation rests with <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Dr.</abbr> Coppinger; and whatever revenue accrues from readers, goes to the finder of the original talc-upon-wax sheets, myself.</p>
<p>If there is a further alteration in this arrangement, it will be announced publicly at a later date. But at present this appears to be most unlikely.</p>
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