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To W. D. Howells, in Boston:
DEAR HOWELLS,--Cut it, scarify it, reject it handle it with entire
freedom.
Yrs ever,
MARK.
But Howells had no doubts as to the quality of the new find. He
declared that the "piece" about the Mississippi was capital, that it
almost made the water in their ice-pitcher turn muddy as he read it.
"The sketch of the low-lived little town was so good that I could
have wished that there was more of it. I want the sketches, if you
can make them, every month."
The "low-lived little town" was Hannibal, and the reader can turn to
the vivid description of it in the chapter already mentioned.
In the same letter Howells refers to a "letter from Limerick," which
he declares he shall keep until he has shown it around--especially
to Aldrich and Osgood.
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