The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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With kindest regards to the Club, and to you,  
I am Sincerely yours  
S. L. CLEMENS.  
In the next letter we reach the end of the Clemens-Cable venture and  
get a characteristic summing up of Mark Twain's general attitude  
toward the companion of his travels. It must be read only in the  
clear realization of Mark Twain's attitude toward orthodoxy, and his  
habit of humor. Cable was as rigidly orthodox as Mark Twain was  
revolutionary. The two were never anything but the best of friends.  
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To W. D. Howells, in Boston:  
PHILADA. Feb. 27, '85.  
MY DEAR HOWELLS,--To-night in Baltimore, to-morrow afternoon and night  
in Washington, and my four-months platform campaign is ended at last.  
It has been a curious experience. It has taught me that Cable's gifts of  
mind are greater and higher than I had suspected. But--  
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