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- ↑ Levy, Paul (2006). The Letters of Lytton Strachey. Penguin. p. 381. ISBN 978-0141014739.
- 1 2 3 4 Margaret 'Esipinasse, Dictionary of Labour Biography (vol. 5), pp. 100–102.
- ↑ Green 1981. p. 41.
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