The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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intermediate suggestions or talks about our raising half of the $200,000  
ourselves. I mean, wait for nothing. To make my suggestion available I  
should have to go over and see Arnot, and I don't want to until I can  
mention Carnegie's name to him as going in with us.  
My book is type-written and ready for print--"Pudd'nhead Wilson-a Tale."  
(Or, "Those Extraordinary Twins," if preferable.)  
It makes 82,500 words--12,000 more than Huck Finn. But I don't know  
what  
to do with it. Mrs. Clemens thinks it wouldn't do to go to the Am.  
Pub. Co. or anywhere outside of our own house; we have no subscription  
machinery, and a book in the trade is a book thrown away, as far as  
money-profit goes. I am in a quandary. Give me a lift out of it.  
I will mail the book to you and get you to examine it and see if it is  
good or if it is bad. I think it is good, and I thought the Claimant  
bad, when I saw it in print; but as for real judgment, I think I am  
destitute of it.  
I am writing a companion to the Prince and Pauper, which is half done  
and will make 200,000 words; and I have had the idea that if it were  
gotten up in handsome style, with many illustrations and put at a high  
enough price maybe the L. A. L. canvassers would take it and run it with  
that book. Would they? It could be priced anywhere from $4 up to $10,  
according to how it was gotten up, I suppose.  
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