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February 1878 • Hartford, Conn. (Paraphrase: Washington Post, 26 February 1878, UCCL 13081)
February 1878 • Hartford, Conn. (Paraphrase: Washington Post, 26 February 1878, UCCL 13081)
Mark Twain writes to a friend in Detroit denying the charge that he is lazy. Instead of being lazy, he says, he has no less than four books under way, with the title of each nicely written out in a plain hand and the first chapters headed off.
References
- Machlis, Paul, ed. Union Catalog of Clemens Letters. Edited by Paul Machlis. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. [In some cases, UCCL catalog numbers cited in this volume supersede those assigned in 1986 and reflect corrections or additions to the catalog since publication. An updated version of the catalog can be consulted via the Letters Search page at MTPO.] 1986
Paraphrase, “Personal,” Washington Post, 26 Feb 1878, 2.