The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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I was richer than any other person in the world, and now I am that  
pauper without peer. Some day I will tell you about it, not now.  
MARK.  
A tide of condolence flowed in from all parts of the world. It was  
impossible to answer all. Only a few who had been their closest  
friends received a written line, but the little printed  
acknowledgment which was returned was no mere formality. It was a  
heartfelt, personal word.  
They arrived in America in July, and were accompanied by Twichell to  
Elmira, and on the 14th Mrs. Clemens was laid to rest by the side of  
Susy and little Langdon. R. W. Gilder had arranged for them to  
occupy, for the summer, a cottage on his place at Tyringham, in the  
Berkshire Hills. By November they were at the Grosvenor, in New  
York, preparing to establish themselves in a house which they had  
taken on the corner of Ninth Street and Fifth Avenue--Number 21.  
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To F. N. Doubleday, in New York:  
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