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Labor of Love Consumes Perry Man Preserving Twainiana
Perry Missouri resident Davis edits The Twainian a small biannual publication on Mark Twain. He dedicates his life to collecting letters personal writings and new material for researchers and Twain buffs. The club mailings reach 500 copies and feature items from the Mark Twain Research Foundation. Davis recalls colleagues and readers discover pearls in his magazine and shares Twain’s Christmas prayer noting the joke about the inventor of the telephone.
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