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    Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 6 (1907-1910)
    Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 6 (1907-1910)
    Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 6 (1907-1910)
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    Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 6 (1907-1910)

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 6 (1907-1910) - Albert Bigelow Paine

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Letters Of Mark Twain, Volume 6,

      1907-1910, by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: The Letters Of Mark Twain, Volume 6, 1907-1910

      Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

      Release Date: August 21, 2006 [EBook #3198]

      Last Updated: October 31, 2012

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TWAIN LETTERS, VOL. 6 ***

      Produced by David Widger

      MARK TWAIN'S LETTERS 1907-1910

      VOLUME VI.

      By Mark Twain

      ARRANGED WITH COMMENT

      BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE

      Contents

      XLVI. LETTERS 1907-08. A DEGREE FROM OXFORD. THE NEW HOME AT REDDING.

           The author, J. Howard Moore, sent a copy of his book, The Universal

           Kinship, with a letter in which he said: "Most humorists have no

           anxiety except to glorify themselves and add substance to their

           pocket-books by making their readers laugh.  You have shown, on many

           occasions, that your mission is not simply to antidote the

           melancholy of a world, but includes a real and intelligent concern

           for the general welfare of your fellowman."

           The Universal Kinship was the kind of a book that Mark Twain

           appreciated, as his acknowledgment clearly shows.

      To Mr. J. Howard Moore:

                                                             Feb. 2, '07.

      DEAR MR. MOORE, The book has furnished me several days of deep pleasure and satisfaction; it has compelled my gratitude at the same time, since it saves me the labor of stating my own long-cherished opinions and reflections and resentments by doing it lucidly and fervently and irascibly for me.

      There is one thing that always puzzles me: as inheritors of the mentality of our reptile ancestors we have improved the inheritance by a thousand grades; but in the matter of the morals which they left us we have gone backward as many grades. That evolution is strange, and to me unaccountable and unnatural. Necessarily we started equipped with their perfect and blemishless morals; now we are wholly destitute; we have no real, morals, but only artificial ones—morals created and preserved by the forced suppression of natural and hellish instincts. Yet we are dull enough to be vain of them. Certainly we are a sufficiently comical invention, we humans.

                               Sincerely Yours,

                                         S. L. CLEMENS.

           Mark Twain's own books were always being excommunicated by some

           librarian, and the matter never failed to invite the attention and

           amusement of the press, and the indignation of many correspondents.

           Usually the books were Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, the morals of which

           were not regarded as wholly exemplary.  But in 1907 a small library,

           in a very small town, attained a day's national notoriety by putting

           the ban on Eve's Diary, not so much on account of its text as for

           the chaste and exquisite illustrations by Lester Ralph.  When the

           reporters came in a troop to learn about it, the author said: "I

           believe this time the trouble is mainly with the pictures.  I did

           not draw them.  I wish I had—they are so beautiful."

           Just at this time, Dr. William Lyon Phelps, of Yale, was giving a

           literary talk to the Teachers' Club, of Hartford, dwelling on the

           superlative value of Mark Twain's writings for readers old and

           young.  Mrs. F. G. Whitmore, an old Hartford friend, wrote Clemens

           of the things that Phelps had said, as consolation for Eve's latest

           banishment.  This gave him a chance to add something to what he had

           said to the reporters.

      To Mrs. Whitmore, in Hartford:

                                                             Feb. 7, 1907.

      DEAR MRS. WHITMORE,—But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me. But even if it angered me such words as those of Professor Phelps would take the sting all out. Nobody attaches weight to the freaks of the Charlton Library, but when a man like Phelps speaks, the world gives attention. Some day I hope to meet him and thank him for his courage for saying those things out in public. Custom is, to think a handsome thing

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