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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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From Uncle Remus
Mr. S.L. Clemens Hartford Connecticut
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My Dear Mr. Clemens

Thanks for the book— for the hint to Mr. Osgood — and for everything else. When I come North, as I hope to do in the spring, I shall most certainly sit up with you one day — because I am convinced that a man who has lumbago can stand anything.

I propose to write out our two short stories in the dialect and put them side by side.

Faithfully Yours:
Joel Chandler Harris