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in the book I am now writing.
I finished "Those Extraordinary Twins" night before last makes 60 or
8
0,000 words--haven't counted.
The last third of it suits me to a dot. I begin, to-day, to entirely
recast and re-write the first two-thirds--new plan, with two minor
characters, made very prominent, one major character cropped out, and
the Twins subordinated to a minor but not insignificant place.
The minor character will now become the chiefest, and I will name the
story after him--"Puddn'head Wilson."
Merry Xmas to you, and great prosperity and felicity!
S. L. CLEMENS.
XXXIII. LETTERS, 1893, TO MR. HALL, MRS. CLEMENS, AND OTHERS.
FLORENCE.
BUSINESS TROUBLES. "PUDD'NHEAD WILSON." "JOAN OF ARC." AT THE
PLAYERS,
NEW YORK.
The reader may have suspected that young Mr. Hall in New York was having
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