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in the shape of quartz, whether it contained any mineral value or not. His successwith the New England public was immediate and complete. I will go with you, Walter declared. Yet it must have seemed to many who knew him, and to himself, likeenough, that Mark Twain at forty had reached the pinnacle of his fame andachievement.

My back is sore, and myhands are blistered with handling them to-day. It was looking over and beyond everything of the present, and far into the past. Goodman,and other old friends of Mark Twain:I cannot let these volumes go to press without some grateful word to youwho have helped me during the six years and more that have gone to theirmaking. Mark Twain Club, all neatly andelaborately written out, with the speech of each member and thediscu