The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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made its earliest beginning, which was in dramatic form.  
His mind, however, was otherwise active. He was always more or less  
given to inventions, and in his next letter we find a description of  
one which he brought to comparative perfection.  
He had also conceived the idea of another book of travel, and this  
was his purpose of a projected trip to England.  
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To Orion Clemens, in Hartford:  
FENWICK HALL, SAYBROOK, CONN.  
Aug. 11, 1872.  
MY DEAR BRO.--I shall sail for England in the Scotia, Aug. 21.  
But what I wish to put on record now, is my new invention--hence  
this note, which you will preserve. It is this--a self-pasting  
scrap-book--good enough idea if some juggling tailor does not come  
along and ante-date me a couple of months, as in the case of the elastic  
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