. Mark Twain : a biography : the personal and literary life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens . QUARRY FARM, ELIMRA, N. GROUP AT FARM ABOUT IM74 SUMMER LABORS AT QUARRY FARM the Atlantic sl scheme of blindfold novelettes, a seriesof stories to be written by well-known authors and others,each to be constructed on the same plot. One can easilyimagine Clemenss enthusiasm over a banal project likethat; his impulses were always rainbow-hued, whethervaluable or not; but it is curious that Howells shouldwelcome and even encourage an enterprise so far re-moved from all the traditions of art. It fell to
. Mark Twain : a biography : the personal and literary life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens . QUARRY FARM, ELIMRA, N. GROUP AT FARM ABOUT IM74 SUMMER LABORS AT QUARRY FARM the Atlantic sl scheme of blindfold novelettes, a seriesof stories to be written by well-known authors and others,each to be constructed on the same plot. One can easilyimagine Clemenss enthusiasm over a banal project likethat; his impulses were always rainbow-hued, whethervaluable or not; but it is curious that Howells shouldwelcome and even encourage an enterprise so far re-moved from all the traditions of art. It fell to pieces, atlast, of inherent misconstruction. The title was to be,A Murder and a Marriage. Clemens could not arriveat a logical climax that did not bring the marriage and thehanging on the same day. The Atlantic started its Contributors Club, andHowells wrote to Clemens for a paragraph or more ofpersonal opinion on any subject, assuring him that hecould spit his spite out at somebody or somethingas if it were a passage from a letter. That was afairly large permission to give Mark Twain. The para-graph he sent was
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