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In a subsequentdictation he said: I am glad I have lived to see that half-hour--that astonishing half- hour. Irving died in October, and Clemens ordered a wreath for his funeral. He was highly elated, and pronounced everything a perfect success. But that is a dream; a creature of the heart, not of the mind--a feeling, a longing, not a mental prod

Send Clara a copy of Howells's gorgeous letter. I am not cussing altogether about myown little troubles. The item as printednext day invited a good deal of comment, and Collier's Weekly made it atext for an editorial on his mental vigor and general fitness for theplace. Howells was too tiredand too occupied to undertake immediately a new dramatic labor, soClemens went steaming ahead alone.