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Institutions, collectors and researchers from both the Americas and Europe had been inquiring about the manuscript recently because of its rarity.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2023

Kavanaugh said she didn't save a copy of the Kumar report, nor did she forward it to anyone at United or to officials at Penn State who had been inquiring about the McNaughton case.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2023

Gauthier quoted Dutoit as saying he would not speak to her for the story when he learned she had been inquiring about his reputation.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2017

Then, last summer, to help a friend with cancer, she sold Capote's typewriter to local collector Steve Soboroff, who had been inquiring about it for years.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2014

This person, conjecturing, from the direction whence Raeburn was coming, that he had been inquiring for his patient, accosted him, and asked him how she was.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various