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Source: Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Conn ([CtY-BR])

Cue: "Yes, it is the same mildewed idiot. His friends"

Source format: "MS, correspondence card"

Letter type: "correspondence card"

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To Miss Perkins
30 April 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: CtY-BR, UCCL 01796)
Hartford, Apl. 30/80.
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Dear Miss Perkins: Yes, it is the same mildewed idiot. His friends call him a lunatic—but that is pretty fulsome flattery; one cannot become a lunatic without first having brains. Yes, he is the “Poet Lariat.”

Truly Yours
S. L. Clemens.
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Source text(s):

MS, correspondence card, CtY-BR.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 1.

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