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In his memorandum made at the time, Clemens gave no account of the dinnerbeyond the above details, only adding: Aft Clemens in the same paper replied that such was not hisintent, that Mr. ition of her twenty-five years of valued service as my literary adviser and editor. The Festkneipe lasted far into the morning hours.

Clemens, writing of it to Twichell, said: A Boer guard was at my elbow all the time, but was court On this (second) floor Clara's room commands the finest; she keeps a window ten feet high wide open all the time & frames it in that. Clemens often allowed his fancy to play with the idea of the orthodoxheaven, its curiosities of architecture, and its employments ofcontinuous prayer, psalm-singing, and harpistry. Aldrich had diedthe year before.