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deep stillness, this dreamy expanse of woodsy hill & valley! You must come, Aunt Sue, & stay with us a real good visit. Clemens himself got discouraged sometimes,and was about ready to give it up, for he was getting on in years--nearlysixty--and he was in poor health. And, in fact, so have we all. CONCERNING THE JEWS (Vienna)--Harper's Magazine, September, '99.

He wrote to Hall thatit was his intention to write another book of travel and to take a yearor two to collect the material. He is reading Suetonius, which he already knows by heart--sofull of the cruelties and licentiousness of imperial Rome. Clemens wrote a number of final letters from Vancouver. ]Mark Twain probably exaggerated his sentiments a good deal when in theCarlyle letter he claimed to be the most rabid of Sansculottes.