slip of the pen

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It is clear that "presumed" is a slip of the pen; it should have been condescended.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene

"Tell Professor Phelps it was a slip of the pen."

From When Patty Went to College by Williams, C. D. (Charles D.)

What if the same slip of the pen had been found in Cod. b?1066.Viz.

From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William

This might easily have been a slip of the pen or a printer's mistake for 1488 or 1489, and subsequent passages in the life bear out this supposition.

From Six Centuries of Painting by Davies, Randall