The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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XXXIV. LETTERS 1894. A WINTER IN NEW YORK. BUSINESS FAILURE.  
END OF THE  
MACHINE.  
The beginning of the new year found Mark Twain sailing buoyantly on a  
tide of optimism. He believed that with H. H. Rogers as his financial  
pilot he could weather safely any storm or stress. He could divert  
himself, or rest, or work, and consider his business affairs with  
interest and amusement, instead of with haggard anxiety. He ran over to  
Hartford to see an amateur play; to Boston to give a charity reading; to  
Fair Haven to open the library which Mr. Rogers had established there;  
he attended gay dinners, receptions, and late studio parties, acquiring  
the name of the "Belle of New York." In the letters that follow we get  
the echo of some of these things. The Mrs. Rice mentioned in the next  
brief letter was the wife of Dr. Clarence C. Rice, who had introduced H.  
H. Rogers to Mark Twain.  
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