The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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In a letter to Twichell he wrote: "How sweet she was in death; how  
young, how beautiful, how like her dear, girlish self cf thirty  
years ago; not a gray hair showing."  
The family was now without plans for the future until they  
remembered the summer home of R. W. Gilder, at Tyringham,  
Massachusetts, and the possibility of finding lodgment for  
themselves in that secluded corner of New England. Clemens wrote  
without delay, as follows:  
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To R. W. Gilder, in New York:  
VILLA DI QUARTO, FLORENCE,  
June 7, '04.  
DEAR GILDER FAMILY,--I have been worrying and worrying to know what to  
do: at last I went to the girls with an idea: to ask the Gilders to get  
us shelter near their summer home. It was the first time they have not  
shaken their heads. So to-morrow I will cable to you and shall hope to  
be in time.  
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