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Gilder Lehrman Document Number: GLC05508.250

Title: to students of Marshall E. Bean

Author: Vonnegut, Kurt (1922-2007)

Year: 1969/10/09

Place: West Barnstable, Massachusetts

Type of document: Typed letter signed

Description: Vonnegut thanks the class for the Thanksgiving card and comments they sent him and explains that another "Mr. Bean" was the best teacher he had as a child. He includes a poem from one of his books about how the whole world is doing God's work. The poem was published in Vonnegut's book Cat's Cradle in 1963.

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