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Clemens asked me to obtain for him some itemconcerning the obsequies. It was discovered presently that ithad a habit of breaking the types. At the Savage Club, too, he recalled old times and old friends, andparticularly that first London visit, his days in the club twenty-sevenyears before. (Referring to notes.

Once he allowed himself to be interviewed for the Herald, when from Mr. He didn't even know it 9 years later, when we saw him approaching and you warned me, saying: Don't say anything about age--he has just turned 50 & thinks he is old, & broods over it. Birrell said in that connection. But it is characteristically American--always trying to get along short-handed & save wages.