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    "title": "Unsent Letter from President Harry S. Truman to the New Yorker Magazine",
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    "ocrText": "7/22/52 - This given to the to me today Letterwoo\nin mr desh. Rac\nTHE WHITE house\nWASHINGTON\nJan 8, S. TRUMAN 1952\nDear New Yorker:-\nU.S.\nSERVICE'S\nFRUESAND LIBRARY\nGOVERNMENT\nTalk of the Town- and you're been\nI'fe feen reading your Jan. 5\ntaken in by one of Missowis brable\nold fakins Cyril Clemens - at one time\nthere was a t before the s! He claims\nto a sereath - it may he sesenteath\ncousin of Haurital's Missowii not\nCarthage ) well known humorist, Mark\nHE had carried copious, one way let\nter writing for his IMTS for years\nyears. How I wish my largented\nfriend and press secretary, Charlie\nRoss had lised to see you taken in!\nHe is the International Mark Twain\nSociety and he merely puts people into\nit without a \"Ry your lease or any\nand Mo doubt he the recipient of\nother formula. you it get in Mour\nnutfy letters like the la beed -\nwhich is my latest.\nI doa if Know him when saw him\nand don + ment to. But of all the\nthings to happen - the New Yorker take\nhooked. it AS almost as had as the\nNotel Board being hooked by that ther\nold Thissouri brath fakin Ening Cockerall\nson of Francis Marion Cockeralla Senator\nfrom Missoun for thirty years. So\nyou are in good company.\nMack himself was a kind of a\nchardatan and fakin- - fut all natires\nof Missour lose him - he Has the\nlying columnist of his day. We hase\nlots open now but no Jack Clerkenses.\nThis is a personal & confidential\nit when I revire - which may he\ncoranimication. you May putlish\nSome time yest\nLIBRARY\nIncerel\nARCHIVES RECORDS BOYERNNENT \"NATIONAL AND ARCHIVIONAL\nU.S.\nTHE WHITE house\nBARRY & ARCHIVES NATIONAL RECORDS TRUMAN AND LIVEN\nnovy\nThe New 8.5. yorka\nSERVICE BOYERNWEET\nResident.\nResident.\n25 West 43 Sheet,\nNew York City"
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