APPENDIX APPENDIX ALETTER FROM ORION CLEMENS TO MISS WOOD CONCERNING HENRY CLEMENS(See Chapter xxvi) KEOKUK, Iowa, October 3, 1858. Clemens decidedto give selections from his books, as he had done with Cable, and tostart without much delay. I have written 12,000 words of this new narrative, & find that the humor flows as easily as the adventures & surprises--so I shall go along and make a book of from 50,000 to 100,000 words. William Lyon Phelps's widely published opinion, which rankedMark Twain as the greatest American novelist, and declared that his famewould outlive any American of his time.
SIR,--The word patricide in your issue of this morning (telegrams) was an error. Her social life may be said tohave ended that afternoon. Such a mental pressure could not be good forher. You should not worry the reader with uncertainties like that.
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