THE STORY: In SUMMER MORNING VISITOR, a young man of Southern background but Northern sympathies agonizes over which side to join in the growing conflict which will become the Civil War. Befriended by a young Missouri woman whose husband is with the Union forces, he (young Sam Clemens) is introduced to a nosy neighbor as a long absent brother and, in this guise, he sends his new friend a witty letter after his departure explaining the unexpected way in which he eventually solved his dilemma.
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Twain Plus Twain.
