The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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was justified. But a doubt has lately sprung up in my mind. I live  
eight miles from Printing House Square; the Times leaves that point at  
4
o'clock in the morning, by mail, and reaches me at 5 in the afternoon,  
thus making the trip in thirteen hours.  
It is my conviction that in New York we should do it in eleven.  
C.  
DOLLIS HILL, N. W.  
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To Rev. J. H. Twichell, in Hartford:  
DOLLIS HILL HOUSE, KILBURN, N. W.  
LONDON, Aug. 12, '00.  
DEAR JOE,--The Sages Prof. Fiske and Brander Matthews were out here  
to tea a week ago and it was a breath of American air to see them. We  
furnished them a bright day and comfortable weather--and they used it  
all up, in their extravagant American way. Since then we have sat by  
coal fires, evenings.  
We shall sail for home sometime in October, but shall winter in New York  
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