Typed letter signed : Silver Lake, N.H., to Mina Curtiss, 1962 Aug. 3.

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Typed letter signed : Silver Lake, N.H., to Mina Curtiss, 1962 Aug. 3.

Discussing the weather, and sending thanks for the "hoax brochure." Mentioning his "old friend" S. Foster Damon, author "when a mere stripling, of what will always remain our nonhero's favorite book on Blake."

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