My dear Mr. Clemens,
I had been working over a list of books for children's reading, and as I often do, had asked Weld's opinion saying "Weld, how do you feel about Tom and Huck. Do you think it is as good for a boy to read about them as about King Arthur and his knights." He thought a moment 鈥 and then said, "Mother, if you didn't put them in, I think it would be robbing a boy of something that was pretty good"