Summary

Twain then goes into how one particular letter he received was from a woman who knew his uncle and then, just as all the others, asked for his influence to help her works get published. He decided to write back to this letter. What he writes back is the conversation he knows he would have if he talked to the publisher in person. The conversation would end up being the publisher asking Twain a bunch of questions about the woman who sent the letter and Twain would have no idea how to answer.