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It would give me great pleasure to lay hand on the letter from my dear Uncle Remus which I seem to have answered in mine of almost exactly thirty-three years ago; but I cannot.
If I remember aright I never wrote best this one letter to your father
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his in possibly an "Open Letter" in the Country
Magazine and not to anything received by me in letter form.
He was quite right in the statement he made as to the banjo not being an instrument much in use among the negro slaves in our Southern states. Why he should have had to defend his statement I do not now recall, but I remember that so it was.
I greatly appreciate your kind
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of them.
Wishing you great success in your writing of Uncle Remus's life, and that I could do more to help you,
By the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, in conjunction with the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis.