The gorgeous letter mentioned was an appreciation of his recent Bazararticle, The Turning-Point in My Life, and here follows: January 18, 1910. You have been flaying your correspondent alive with your incorporeal pen; you have been braining him, disemboweling him, carving him into little bits, and then--doing it all over again. Clemens declared, in one of his replies to Howells: I'm not writing for those parties who miscall themselves critics, and I don't care to have them paw the book at all. He had been driving about over the island with a newlyadopted granddaughter, little Margaret Blackmer, whom he had met onemorning in the hotel dining-room.
Speech on The Weather, New England Society, December 22. Wewill deal in palpable puns. Ill health had banished every one, even the secretary. Rogers once told of this visit to the writer ofthese chapters.
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