Statistics for occurrence #1 of “John Allan” in chapter 1.4, page 56 of Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2:

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as a quick and clever boy, though embarrassed by an extravagant amount of pocket-money; and John Allan wrote of him in 1818 that he was a fine boy and read Latin pretty sharply. In 1816 Allan described him as thin as a razor, but in 1819 he wrote that he was growing wonderfully. On his return to...
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John Allan 37 15 9 1 0 user votes
John Allan Wyeth 9 0 1 0 0 user votes

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