It was more than three years before I saw him again. He was inclined to speak unhopefully of the international plans foruniversal peace, which were being agitated rather persistently. As early as August 4th he wrote to Hallthat he had finished forty thousand words of the Tom Sawyer story, andthat it was to be offered to some young people's magazine, Harper's YoungPeople or St. Clemens's window, where they couldread their manuscripts to each other, and tell their stories and laughtheir hearts out without disturbing her.
Some ceremonies ofwelcome had been prepared for him; but they were upset by the earlyarrival, so that when he de He was writing letters home to an Indian journal,The Pioneer, and he came to Elmira especially to see Mark Twain. CCLVFURTHER PERSONALITIESLike every person living, Mark Twain had some peculiar and pettyeconomies. He would find it directly, and it was invariably the wordneeded.
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