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Add to My Citations To Jervis Langdon II
19 December 1883 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, in pencil: CtHMTH, UCCL 02867)
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Hartford Dec. 19/83

Dear Jervis:

I hope you will like the Robin Hood. I have been reading it, to see if it still possessed for me the fascination which it had when I was your age—a fascination so great that it paled the interest of all other books & made them tame & colorless. I find, to my utter astonishment & delight, that a very large part of the old charm still remains in the book; it brings back to me the quaint & simple, & fragrant & woodsy England which my imagination knew as a boy, & restores to me, scarcely marred by disillusion, Sherwood [forest] & its matchless society—rascals, no doubt, but the most darling sweet rascals that ever made crime graceful in this world. I have always regretted that I did not belong to Robin Hood’s gang.

Affectionately Your

Uncle Sam.

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MS, in pencil, CtHMTH.

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forest • [‘f’ accidentally given a crossbar, as if it were a ‘t’]