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Twenty years after the death of Truman Capote, it comes as a surprise to open his letters and meet with more discipline than dissipation. Biographies of the writer cannot ignore his last, wasted years, but a new epistolary handbasket, "Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote" (Random House; $27.95), stops almost short of hell, devoting about ninety per cent of its contents to an ambitious artist between the ages of nineteen and forty-two, not the bloated, frantically fallow T.C. of the years after "In Cold Blood." There's very little here of the U.N. Plaza apartment and Princess Lee and even the Paleys, let alone the woozy Liza nights at Studio 54. According to ...