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[Responds to Rimington's request to write an introduction to Mark Twain 's Autobiography: First Romance and Memoranda by writing, "... it has little or no literary value and all I could do in writing an introduction for it would be to say something about it as a literary curiosity and also about its significance as indicative of the literary tone of 1871."]