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This was a great relief to me, but not to my wife. The manuscript was sent to Beard, who met Clemens a little later in theoffice of Webster & Co. It is another theft, another extortion. Clemensinserted portions of some of his discarded essays in these addresses, andhad he developed this element further, and a

I couldn't think, whenI read that letter, what in the nation the man meant, but shaving somehowhas a tendency to release thought, and just now it all came to me. mended me or my work--as proud as if Livy had done it herself--& I took it as the accolade from the hand of genius. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years. ed peace came moreand more to him each day with the thought that Jean and Susy and theirmother could not be troubled any more.