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Subject:
Who was this Fitz Smythe feller?
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Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]>
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Clay Shannon <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 4 Feb 2020 05:47:51 +0000
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In his newspaper articles of the mid-'60s, Twain mentions a Fitz Smyth almost as often as he had written of "The Unreliable" in Virginia (City) previously.
Who in tarnation was this Fitz Smythe, and did he ever have any other notoriety than what Twain gave him?
- B. Clay Shannon

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