The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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a letter of introduction to the Admiral. I already know the Admiral  
commanding in the China Seas and have promised to look in on him out  
there. He sleeps with my books under his pillow. P'raps it is the only  
way he can sleep.  
According to Mrs. Clemens's present plans--subject to modification, of  
course--we sail in May; stay one day, or two days in New York, spend  
June, July and August in Elmira and prepare my lectures; then lecture  
in San Francisco and thereabouts during September and sail for Australia  
before the middle of October and open the show there about the middle of  
November. We don't take the girls along; it would be too expensive and  
they are quite willing to remain behind anyway.  
Mrs. C. is feeling so well that she is not going to try the New York  
doctor till we have gone around the world and robbed it and made the  
finances a little easier.  
With a power of love to you all,  
S. L. CLEMENS.  
There would come moments of depression, of course, and a week later  
he wrote: "I am tired to death all the time:" To a man of less  
vitality, less vigor of mind and body, it is easy to believe that  
under such circumstances this condition would have remained  
permanent. But perhaps, after all, it was his comic outlook on  
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