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Mark Twain's Letters, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
Mark Twain's Letters Vol 2 of 2 - Classic Reprint Author:Mark Twain MARK TWAIN'S LETTERS XXIV letters, 1884, to howells and others. cable's great april fool. "huck finn" in press. mark twain for cleveland. clemens and cable MARK TWAIN had a lingering attack of the dramatic fever that winter. He made a play of the Prince and Pauper,. which Howells pronounced "too thin and slight and not half long enough." He made... more » another of Tom Sawyer, and probably destroyed it, for no trace of the MS. exists to-day. Howells could not join in these ventures, for he was otherwise occupied and had sickness in his household. To W. D. Howells, in Boston: Jan. 7, '84. My dear Howells,-"0 my goodn's" as Jean says. You have now encountered at last the heaviest calamity that can befall an author. The scarlet fever, once domesticated, is a permanent member of the family. Money may desert you, friends forsake you, enemies grow indifferent to you, but the scarlet fever will be true to you, through thick and thin, till you be all saved or damned, down to
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CONTENTS; CHAP PAGE; XXIV Letters, 1884,10 Ho wells and Others-Cable's; Great April Fool-"Huck Finn" in Press -Mark Twain for Cleveland-Clemens and Cable439; XXV The Great Year of 1885-Clemens and Cable; - Publication of "Huck Finn" - The Grant Memoirs-Mark Twain at Fifty 448; XXVI Letters, 1886-87-Jane Clemens's Romance-; Unmailed Letters, etc467; XXVII Miscellaneous Letters of 1887-Literary Ar-; ticles-Peaceful Days at the Farm- Favorite Reading - Apology to Mrs Cleveland, etc483; XXVIII Letters, 1888-A Yale Degree-Work on; "The Yankee"-On Interviewing, etc 495; XXIX Letters, 1889-The Machine-Death of Mr; Crane-Conclusion of "The Yankee" 506; XXX Letters, 1890-Chiefly to Jos T Goodman-; The Great Machine Enterprise 529; XXXI Letters, 1891, to Howells, Mrs Clemens and; Others-Return to Literature-"American Claimant "-Leaving Hartford-Europe-Down the Rhone540; XXXII Letters, 1892, Chiefly to Mr Hall and Mrs; Crane-In Berlin, Mentone, Bad« less