6/07/2012

Wm to H'ry, Nov. 20, 1892. Age: 50

Wm brags of dinner companions in Italy:

"The dinner last night went off well enough.  Mark Twain is a unique creature, on the whole rather endearing.  As for [Charles] Leland with his heavy slow Philadelphian flatness, if asked to guess what book that man had written, I should never have dreamed of saying Hans Breitmanns Ballads!"

Charles Godfrey Leland,
whose work later help formed the basis of neopaganism
Twain in 1892


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