slip of the pen
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"Just a slip of the pen, my dear."
From Time Magazine Archive
Dear Saint Nicholas: Will you give me room to rectify a slip of the pen?
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 by Mary Mapes Dodge
As for the place where the pulque was kept, it was a venial slip of the pen to call it a "wine-cellar," even if it was not below the ground.
From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by John Fiske
This has been interpreted as a slip of the pen for ganza; but it may be a Lombardism for gazza.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
Garhā Kota seems to be a slip of the pen for Garhā.
From Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by William Sleeman
