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XX. LETTERS OF 1880, CHIEFLY TO HOWELLS. "THE PRINCE AND THE
PAUPER."
MARK TWAIN MUGWUMP SOCIETY.
The book of travel,--[A Tramp Abroad.]--which Mark Twain had
hoped to finish in Paris, and later in Elmira, for some
reason would not come to an end. In December, in Hartford,
he was still working on it, and he would seem to have
finished it, at last, rather by a decree than by any natural
process of authorship. This was early in January, 1880. To
Howells he reports his difficulties, and his drastic method
of ending them.
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To W. D. Howells, in Boston:
HARTFORD, Jan. 8, '80.
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