"I am persuaded that the future historian of America will find your works as indispensable to him as a French historian finds the political tracts of Voltaire."
— Mark Twain

January 1, 1970

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George Bernard Shaw, letter to Mark Twain (3 July 1907), as quoted in Shelley Fisher Fishkin's Introduction to A Historical Guide to Mark Twain (Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 3