That's all she wrote antedatings

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1945 or so.

There was once a popular-amongst-the-colored song entitled, Write Me A
Letter. This song either ended with or, perhaps, merely inspired the
extended form:

"That's all she wrote / The pencil broke"

But the song was released only in 1947.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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