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A portion of a playful letter to his mother, written from the springs, still exists.
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In another vein is a playful letter to his wife written in the same month, June, 1803.
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A glimpse is given in the following playful letter and postscript from herself and her sister to a would-be biographer.
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When the boy was not yet ten years of age he closes a playful letter, adapted to such tender years, with these earnest words:
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But on the 12th the crisis seemed passed, and the new father wrote a playful letter to the Twichells, as coming from the late arrival:
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In sweet childlike playful letters, he tells his mother that it is nothing.
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Mark Twain frequently sent her playful letters to amuse her, letters full of such boyish gaiety as had amused her long years before.
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"Once in a while I get a long, playful letter from her, full of things that only Bim could write."