Re: 0ff-Topic: Ink-Stained Wretch

[Mary Bernard Mary_Bernard@xxxxxxxx]

Irene


Apologies for an off-topic
question. My newspaper needs to know:

Where did the phrase "ink-stained wretch" originate?

Google has been no help.


You could try the Stumpers-L list - it was set up by reference librarians
as a place to ask questions that have stumped them; but non-librarians
are welcome to use it. I've got answers to a couple of hard ones that
way.


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Mary


Mary Bernard

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