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None of
these were published for decades following his death; two were abandoned
[“Hotchkiss,” and “Conspiracy”], and the third remained in the form of extended
notes. Yet each represents an important act of memory and imagination. All are
rooted in his boyhood hometown. The most striking of these is the stupendous
work of tabulated early memory that he called “Villagers of 1840-3.”
“Villagers” is a kind of city directory of Hannibal in those years…it comprises
thumbnail sketches of more than a hundred
Hannibal people Note:
“Conspiracy” was continued off and on until about 1902 [AMT-1: 707]. Both
SLC used
mourning border for most letters from Susy’s death on, then from Livy’s death
on.
