Lovingly

MARK.

P. S.--Am luxuriating in glorious old Pepy's Diary, and smoking.

Letters are exceedingly scarce through all this period. Mark Twain,

now on his second visit to London, was literally overwhelmed with

honors and entertainment; his rooms at the Langham were like a

court. Such men as Robert Browning, Turgenieff, Sir John Millais,

and Charles Kingsley hastened to call. Kingsley and others gave him

dinners. Mrs. Clemens to her sister wrote: "It is perfectly

discouraging to try to write you."

The continuous excitement presently told on her. In July all

further engagements were canceled, and Clemens took his little

family to Scotland, for quiet and rest. They broke the journey at

York, and it was there that Mark Twain wrote the only letter

remaining from this time.

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Fragment of a letter to Mrs. Jervis Langdon, of Elmira, N. Y.:

The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete