The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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I signed and mailed the notes yesterday.  
Yours  
S. L. C.  
Clemens reached New York on the 3d of April and made a trip to  
Chicago, but accomplished nothing, except to visit the World's Fair  
and be laid up with a severe cold. The machine situation had not  
progressed. The financial stringency of 1893 had brought everything  
to a standstill. The New York bank would advance Webster & Co. no  
more money. So disturbed were his affairs, so disordered was  
everything, that sometimes he felt himself as one walking amid  
unrealities. A fragment of a letter to Mrs. Crane conveys this:  
"
I dreamed I was born and grew up and was a pilot on the Mississippi  
and a miner and a journalist in Nevada and a pilgrim in the Quaker  
City, and had a wife and children and went to live in a villa at  
Florence--and this dream goes on and on and sometimes seems so real  
that I almost believe it is real. I wonder if it is? But there is  
no way to tell, for if one applies tests they would be part of the  
dream, too, and so would simply aid the deceit. I wish I knew  
whether it is a dream or real."  
He saw Warner, briefly, in America; also Howells, now living in New  
York, but he had little time for visiting. On May 13th he sailed  
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