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Twain’s typewritten letter to autograph hunter

by on May 13, 2019

In his memoirs, Mark Twain described a letter he wrote to an autograph hunter, offering a summary of its content, but not the actual text. That letter, purportedly in its entirety, was printed earlier in The Critic (New York), February 8, 1890, and is offered here —

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