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Dickinson, and is published here with his consent. Clemens ordered a phonograph and gave it a pretty fair trial. The longer you postpone a thing of this kind theless likely you are ever to get at it. The terms they proposeindicate that they expect to sell five, possibly ten thousand copies.

I will give you the details. A London paper likened it to Voltaire's returnto Paris in 1778, when France went mad over him. Theauthorship was not openly acknowledged, however, until the publication ofthe book, the following May. Cranecame to the studio to look at it.