Howells went back to Boston tired out, butelate in the prospect of imminent fortune. ors the property of the publishing firm whose financial backer I was and that I am now lecturing for my own benefit. At Christmas-time they took a fortnight's holiday and Clemens went hometo Hartford. Once he wroteof them: We dined as we could, probably with a neighbor, and by quarter to eight in the eveni
van Dyke's poem. Clemens wrote to him March 16th: Your news is splendid. The most distant and faintest under the horizon suggested fading ships at sea. I had oneonce, but it is worn out now.
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