The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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the type-setter interests--anything that would sustain his ship until  
the L. A. L. tide should turn and float it into safety.  
Clemens had faith in Hall and was fond of him. He never found fault with  
him; he tried to accept his encouraging reports at their face value.  
He lent the firm every dollar of his literary earnings not absolutely  
needed for the family's support; he signed new notes; he allowed Mrs.  
Clemens to put in such remnants of her patrimony as the type-setter had  
spared.  
The situation in 1893 was about as here outlined. The letters to Hall of  
that year are frequent and carry along the story. To any who had formed  
the idea that Mark Twain was irascible, exacting, and faultfinding, they  
will perhaps be a revelation.  
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To Fred J. Hall, in New York:  
FLORENCE, Jan. 1, '93.  
DEAR MR. HALL,--Yours of Dec. 19 is to hand, and Mrs. Clemens is deeply  
distressed, for she thinks I have been blaming you or finding fault with  
you about something. But most surely that cannot be. I tell her that  
although I am prone to write hasty and regrettable things to other  
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