To Miss Perkins
30 April 1880 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, correspondence card: CtY-BR, UCCL 01796)

Hartford, Apl. 30/80.

Dear Miss Perkins: Yes, it is the same mildewed idiot. His friends call him a lunatic—but that is pretty fulsome flattery; one cannot become a lunatic without first having brains. Yes, he is the “Poet Lariat.”

Truly Yours

S. L. Clemens.