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whether you really set the "practical"
politican over the "impractical" and
"visionary" idealist who, so you taught
us in the "Prince" is the only true
realist.

I know this letter is cheek. I know I
have no right to ask - but even before you
received your present honour - you were more
than a popular novelist - and some us
took you deadly seriously. Were we
young prigs for 30 days when the book
was only fiction of the moment?

Yours truly,

Frank L. Harris