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Look in my face. My name is Used-to-was;
I am also called Played-out and Done-to-death,
And It-will-wash-no-more.


Henry Duff Traill

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Henry Duff Traill

Henry Duff Traill

Born: August 14, 1842
Died: February 21, 1900 (aged 57)
Bio: Henry Duff Traill was a British author and journalist.
Known for:
  1. The Life of Sir John Franklin R.N (1896)
  2. England, Egypt, and the Sudan (1900)
  3. The Marquis of Salisbury (1891)
  4. Lord Cromer (1897)

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