Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900)

book into a phonograph if I don't have to yell. I write 2,000 words a

day; I think I can dictate twice as many.

But mind, if this is going to be too much trouble to you--go ahead and do it, all the same.

Ys ever MARK.

Howells, always willing to help, visited the phonograph place, and a few days later reported results. He wrote: “I talked your letter into a fonogra...