I don't like this thing of being stripped naked & washed. I like to be
stripped & warmed at the stove--that is real bully--but I do despise this
washing business. I believe it to be a gratuitous & unnecessary piece of
meanness. I never see them wash the cat.
- Letter written in voice of his young son Langdon, 11/11/1870
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