"The Brains of a Cross-Eyed Titmouse..."

A few readers responded positively to our Thursday post on Edgar Rice Burroughs we thought we'd share this 1941 letter Burroughs wrote to his daughter Joan we found over at Letters of Note.

Burroughs was in Honolulu at the time; he would eventually become a senior war correspondent after the attack on Pearl Harbor. What stands out in this letter is the blow to Burroughs' ego in relaying how people "apologize" for reading his stories to their children. It shows that, no matter how successful, writers are never completely satisfied with their work.

His imagined reply to one "fan" gives us the headline to the post.