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33
This is not quite correct. The “Noah’s Ark” book was begun in Buffalo in 1870.
34
The word conscientious written but erased.
35
Charles L. Webster, owing to poor health, had by this time retired from the firm.
36
This is Col. McComb, of the Alta-California, who had sent Mark Twain on the Quaker City excursion.
37
His word for fleas.
38
Several pages of suggestions for reconstructing the machine follow.
39
Secretary to Mr. Rogers.
40
Anniversary of Susy Clemens’s death.
41
Agent for Sczezepanik.
42
"What Is Man."
43
"Their Silver Wedding Journey."
44
Following the Equator.
45
"Their Silver Wedding journey."
46
Meaning “What a good time you gave me; what a happiness it was to be under your roof again; etc., etc.” See opening sentence of all translations of letters passing between Lord Roberts and Indian princes and rulers.
47
Mr. Rogers’s yacht.
48
Probably “The Death Disk.
49
See Mark Twain; A Biography, chap. CCLI.
50
Mark Twain; A Biography, chaps. CCLVI–CCLIX.
51
Questionable diagnosis! D.W. M.D.
52
Harper’s Magazine, Dec., 1910.
53
Professor Phelps’s Essays on Modern Novelists.