Daily Dose

From Selected Letters of James Thurber, edited by Helen Thurber & Edward Weeks

CLAIMS

"I don't know whether Cruikshank, who illustrated Dickens, ever drew for Punch or not, but I think not; anyway, in reading a sketch on him I learned that in old age he claimed to have written Oliver Twist. My mother's Uncle Milt claimed in his old age to have written 'Dixie.' So it goes."

From a letter to E. B. White, dated Woodbury, Connecticut, Fall 1938