"I have had several letters," he wrote to Professor Edwin Mims, of Trinity College, North Carolina, "about an 'excoriation' (Great Heavens! What a word!) that somebody in North Carolina has been giving me.

I never read these things and I don't know what it's all about--nor do I care.

But perhaps you'll be interested in a letter that I wrote an old friend (a lady) who is concerned about it.

I enclose a copy of it.

I shall never notice any 'excoriator.' But if you wish to add to the gaiety of nations, give this copy to some newspaper and let it loose in the state--if you care to do so.