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In a series of ( fictional ) letters exchanged between the author, Mark Dunn, and his editor, it is explained that the only copy of Dunn's excessively and exhaustively researched and documented biography of one Jonathan Blashette-a circus performer born with three legs who goes on to make a fortune in the deodorant business and becomes a famous philanthropist-was accidentally knocked into a bathtub and destroyed.
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He therefore, in a series of letters ( afterwards collected under the title Minhat Kenaot, i. e., " Jealousy Offering ") called upon the famous rabbi Solomon ben Adret of Barcelona to come to the aid of orthodoxy.
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* John Cleland's early erotic novel Fanny Hill ( 1748 ) is written as a series of letters from the titular character to an unnamed recipient.
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