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Anderson was a prolific correspondent on matters philatelic, particularly in relation to literature, of which he seemed to possess, or have examined, a great deal. His first appearance in a philatelic journal was in
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and the numbers of stamps reported in different catalogues, and, beginning in Volume 7, about early
English philatelic literature which series he subsequently turned into a book.
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newspaper stamps, comparing descriptions he had seen in different journals. In Volume 6 he wrote about varieties of imitations of the
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