The Letters Of Mark Twain, Volume 1, 1853-1866

en he reached San Fra

in. No-not home agai

freedom gone. City s

care and business anx

ere at s

he dreamland of a bec

alities of his old lif

sed him-filled him wi

on the verge of suici

worth

ip around the world, a

ed making a book of

cceptance by Harper's

t Shipwreck story en

mbody in a lecture the

ught frightened him, b

eved he could enterta

ght track. As Governo

pt the audience in ha

insisted that he fol

st house in the city

e appalled him, but h

l

elsewhere, has been

its splendid succe

his immediate future

nce laughed and shout

s and exulting in it.

rtners in the Enterpri

California

emens and other

CITY, Nov

long been impossible to more than half fill the Theatre here, with any sort of attr

enclosed call and some telegrams set that

-go there next. Sandy Baldwin says I have made t

et, Red Dog and Virginia. I am going to talk in Carson, Gold Hill, Silver City, Dayto

New York-lecture o

1st December-but I

to

r

A

ntinued from Octobe

ue incident, the st

-[See Mark Twain:

aid him well; he

eed, from his next

ich always to his

uccess, we gather t

s-introductions fr

uished personag

emens and famil

Dec. 4

Annie and Sammy and Katie some ti

n preachers, now, altogether. I find them gay. Stebbings is a regular brick. I am taking letters of introduction to Henry Ward Beecher, Rev. Dr. Tyng, and other eminent parsons in the east. Whenever anybody offers me a letter to a preacher, now I snaffle it on the spot.

j. Gen. Meade. Col. Leonard has received a letter from him in which he offers me a complimentary benef

verybody says I am throwing away a fortune in

., positively and without reserve. My room is already secured f

. A

A

s plans, and perhaps

e in the East, he was

after an adventurous v

men who believed in

ved offers of newspape

ho had published the

me the proposal to c

the jumping Frog sto

ork, and offered the

Canton, who had once r

us Ward's book. It see

mistake and refuse it

s, and even the newspa

m to venture it as the

d he would publish t

eeks of New York, join

e himself up to a co

meantime in both H

rs in preparation fo

n, the first great oce

Twain realized that

see something of the

the Alta-California

espondent. To his deli

reeing to the twelve

nty dollars ea

t to sail until the 8t

ry letters from New Y

press, and would issu

o New York in April,

nians to lecture, he

ernor of Utah, took

for the venture. He

days after the appe

frightened at the pr

n Francisco, and with

not many, and competit

e two letters writte

et Harte, in San Fran

uat