[Ads-l] Earliest Use of "Live Long and Prosper"

[Jeff Prucher]

Fred, what's the earliest date you have now? Google Books has a bunch of late-19th century hits (and Wikipedia suggests "Trilby"), but I assume you'll have found those already.
 

    On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 10:19 AM, "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
 
 

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The Star Trek Vulcan blessing, "Live long and prosper," has been around for=
 a while on Earth, I believe.  Can anyone help me discover the earliest fin=
dable occurrence of this phrase?=0A=
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Fred Shapiro=0A=

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