Clarence Darrow Letter to Librarian Julia Porter

              (1932) 
CLARENCE DARROW 
1537 EAST 60TH STREET 
CHICAGO 
Feby 17th. [superscript] 
My Dear Mrs. Porter 
I am sending you a book by Express for the 
Kinsman "free" [underlined] public library.  Don't you think they could 
afford to buy [underlined] another Farmington.  I don't think anyone 
Else who ever lived in Kinsman Ever wrote about the town but 
me. I doubt if any one could.  And here, then are a number 
of people in the town who have more money than? This might 
not have been true there years ago, but it is now.  But 
any how I have a warm feeling toward Kinsman and no 
animosities against any one who lives there or Ever did.  I knew 
all of your husband's family.  I don't know whether I knew 
yours or not, for girls loose their names, if not their 
identity, and you are now a Mrs.  You must be very careful 
to whom you loan this new book.  No one under sixty should 
be permitted to read it, for while it is very religious in 
spots, in fact all-through, it is not orthodox in anything- 
and I know Kinsman.  I can hear the old Presbyterian 
bell ring now as I write this letter and Expect to hear it amongst 
the last sounds that Ever reach my Ears.  Your husband and 
family came from Champion.  I only remembered the town for 
two things, Your husband's family and the poor-house. I used 
to think that some day I would go there to live and 
am beginning to think so again.  I really should [illegible crossed out] not