The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder by William Anderson

Author:William Anderson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-02-03T16:00:00+00:00

Rose asked:

Would it be possible to substitute Uncle George for Uncle Tom? You remember Uncle George was “the wild man” in Big Woods. In changing the lead of SILVER LAKE to make it chronological and bring Aunt Docia in, she tells news of the folks in Wisconsin (and of Black Susan [the cat] which covers that point [children’s letters had asked about the Ingalls family’s cat]). She can say that Uncle George is now a river jack on the Mississippi; that sort of revives his memory. Then if he shows up later—Was it on his way east from the Black Hills—we revive “the wild man” memory that Laura has, and describe him as he is now, and he goes on back to logging on the Mississippi. So that his whole life is in the books, because in Big Woods he is the boy who ran away to the war as a drummer boy when he was very young.

Uncle Tom has not been in the books before.

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