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thanks Barb;  that quote is a good ways away from the oft-cited quote
circulating on the web (and the one in Karr's book) -- imagine my
surprise.  And MT's version is just so much better.  It also has the
advantage of sounding like MT, which for readers of this LIST is certainly
a plus!

-hb

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Barbara Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>
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> Hal,
>
> Here is the source in context:
>
>
> The most useful and interesting letters we get here from home are from
> children seven or eight years old. This is petrified truth. Happily they
> have got nothing to talk about but home, and neighbours and family--things
> their betters think unworthy of transmission thousands of miles. They write
> simply and naturally, and without straining for effect. They tell all they
> know, and then stop.
> - "An Open Letter to the American People" _New York Weekly Review_, 17
> February 1866
>
>
> Barb
>



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