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Letter: Correction

Published 7 April 2001

Several readers have written to suggest that the “Samuel Clements
Twain” mentioned in Feedback
(17 March)
was in fact Samuel Langhorne Clemens,
who wrote under the pen-name Mark Twain.
As every (American) schoolchild knows. . .

Issue no. 2285 published 7 April 2001

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