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The Tar Baby and the Tomahawk: Race and Ethnic Images in American Children's Literature, 1880-1939


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Dear Mr Harris—

I owe the addressee a most delightful portrait of you in pencil but when I try to thank him the Post Office treats me as you see

Please find him for me & he will understand why there has been an apparently ungracious delay

Ever yours sincerely
Rudyard Kipling