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To Rogers he wrote: I wanted her [Clara] to see what a generous father she's got. ]-- who still fetches and carries Helen. McClure was in England with a proposition for starting a newmagazine whose complexion was to be peculiarly American, with Mark Twainas its editor. Very good, Clemens said; but I wasn't led to suppose that that was theusual custom among illustrators, judging from some results I have seen.

e ought to consist of a man with an ax on his shoulder proceeding toward a grindstone, or it ought to represent t --[Rudolph Virchow, aneminent German pathologist and anthropologist and scholar; then one ofthe most prominent figures of the German Reichstag. Rogers, Clemenswrote: Possibly the book may not sell, but that is nothing--it was written forlove. At present the highestprice of the book is eight dollars, and its lowest price three dollarsper copy.