The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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S. L. C.  
P.S. Clara is in the sanitarium--till January 28 when her western  
concert tour will begin. She is getting to be a mighty competent singer.  
You must know Clara better; she is one of the very finest and completest  
and most satisfactory characters I have ever met. Others knew it before,  
but I have always been busy with other matters.  
The "billiardist on the premises" was the writer of these notes,  
who, earlier in the year, had become his biographer, and, in the  
course of time, his daily companion and friend. The farm mentioned  
was one which he had bought at Redding, Connecticut, where, later,  
he built the house known as "Stormfield."  
Henry Mills Alden, for nearly forty years editor of Harper's  
Magazine, arrived at his seventieth birthday on November 11th that  
year, and Harper & Brothers had arranged to give him a great dinner  
in the offices of Franklin Square, where, for half a century, he had  
been an active force. Mark Twain, threatened with a cold, and  
knowing the dinner would be strenuous, did not feel able to attend,  
so wrote a letter which, if found suitable, could be read at the  
gathering.  
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