“‘Huckleberry Finn’ is a book I have read four times, and am quite ready to begin again tomorrow”

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Bigelow Paine. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 6, 2064.]

To Mark Twain

[A.B. Paine, Mark Twain, 1912, II, p. 794, III, pp. 859-860]

[Saranac Lake, c. 12 April 1888]

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[Huckleberry Finn] is a book I have read four times, and am quite ready to begin again tomorrow.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain (1835-1910) [www.cmgww.com]

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain (1835-1910) [www.cmgww.com]

Wark Twain in 1884 [https://upload.wikimedia.org]

Mark Twain House, Hartford, Connecticut [http://housesofwriters.altervista.org]

Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, American edition 1885.

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[…] my father, an old man,

has been prevailed upon to read Roughing It (his usual amusement being found in theology),

Mark Twain, Roughing It, first edition, 1872 [http://twain.lib.virginia.edu]

and after one evening spent with the book he declared: “I am frightened. It cannot be safe for a man at my time of life to laugh so much”. […]

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