slip of the pen
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"Just a slip of the pen, my dear."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Garhā Kota seems to be a slip of the pen for Garhā.
From Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by Sleeman, William
I remarked that, but considered it a mere slip of the pen.
From Apologia pro Vita Sua by Newman, John Henry
“When I wrote I called you ‘Miss Wilder’; that was a slip of the pen too.
From Jerry Junior by Lowell, Orson
If a blunder occurs one would rather believe in a slip of the pen, such as happens to real historians, not in the substantial inaccuracy of the narrative.
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir