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These letters exist to-day only in the old files of theExpress, and indeed this is the case with most of Clemens's work for thatpaper. Howells adds that as much as forty times this amount wassometimes offered to Mark Twain in later years. This young man's name was Francis Bret Harte, originally from Albany,later a miner and school-teacher on the Stanislaus, still later acompositor, finally a contributor, on the Golden Era. Unperturbed, for I am accustomed to the vagaries of the masculine mind, I went on.

thought worthpirating in England, but as time passed he realized that he was payingheavily for this recognition. Gray and deep-set underbushy brows, they literally looked you through. There was no answer. In hisletter home he tells of Burlingame's magnanimity in throwing away aninvitation to dine with princes and foreign dignitaries to help him.