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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 Uncle Remus:

Many thanks for the very welcome New Year's gift of the two books. I shall read them at once, of course, and with the interest and enjoyment that anything of yours gives me.

You don't know how glad I was to have you here at dinner the other evening.

Give my regards to your son and Mr. Marquis, and wishing you a happy new year, believe me,

Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt
Mr. Joel Chandler Harris,
Atlanta, Georgia.