To
Miss Perkins
30 April 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: CtY-BR, UCCL 01796)
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.
MS, correspondence card, CtY-BR.
MicroPUL, reel 1.