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        <titleproper encodinganalog="title">Guide to the Benjamin Hoff papers<date normal="1987/1988" type="inclusive"/></titleproper>
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      <abstract encodinganalog="5203_">Benjamin Hoff is the author of The Tao of Pooh and The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow, a biography of Opal Whiteley accompanying a reprinting of her diary. The collection consists of photocopies of articles and a letter to the editor of the Register Guard rebutting an article about Hoff's work on Whiteley as well as a program for the 1988 American Book Awards.</abstract>
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