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Nast had agreed to seethat they were up in due season. This reminded me of something: thirty years ago, in Hartford, the billiard-room was my study, & I wrote my letters there the first thing every morning. Twain during his sojourn there was familiar withonly two other American names--George Washington and Chicago; while Then, next morning, he was seized withthe notion of writing a series of letters to such friends as Howells,Twichell, and Rogers--letters not to be mailed, but to be laid away forsome future public.