George Ade, one of the most beloved writers of his day, carried on a lively correspondence with the most colorful of the great and near-great. George M. Cohan, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, John T. McCutcheon, James Whitcomb Riley, Finley Peter Dunne, Hamlin Garland, all received letters from the Hoosier humorist. <P>These 182 interesting and informative letters of George Ade are arranged chronologically and annotated with explanatory material. The work includes a foreword, an introduction and an autobiography.