Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885)

Part I yet, because that number must have reached Hartford after we

left; but we are going to send down town for a copy, and when it comes I am to read both parts aloud to the family. It is a beautiful story, and makes a body laugh all the time, and cry inside, and feel so old and so forlorn; and gives him gracious glimpses of his lost youth that fill him with a measureless regret, ...