Bayliss Rare Books is selling the letter for £15,000. A press release describes the letter as “informal, insightful, and dated just weeks after the book’s, making it one of the earliest and ...

The books takes its title from a grade-school chant teaching kids how to spell “Mississippi.” “S” is the crooked letter, of course — so the repetition points to parallels between Silas ...

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