slip of the pen

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"Just a slip of the pen, my dear."

From Time Magazine Archive

“When I wrote I called you ‘Miss Wilder’; that was a slip of the pen too.

From Jerry Junior by Lowell, Orson

Garhā Kota seems to be a slip of the pen for Garhā.

From Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by Sleeman, William

This looks as if these persons knew that they had made a slip of the pen while writing the letter.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund

X. Z. Gregory the Great.—This is clearly a mere slip of the pen in Lady Morgan's pamphlet.

From Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George