ut, picking up this point and that, as memory or fancyprompted, without any particular biographical order. I found that I had met Hammond once when he was a Yale senior & a guest of General Franklin's. So, after that, most of the days and nights I wasthere. The house at 14 West Tenth Street became suddenly one of the mostconspicuous residences in New York.
Once Colonel FredGrant suggested to Clemens that if he could encourage the General alittle it might be worth while. As literature, the Mississippi book will rank with Mark Twain's best--sofar, at least, as the first twenty chapters of it are concerned. Laurence Hutton, writing of itafterward, said:And on the first Founder's Night, the 31st of December, He was full of it, as he had been all along, and 'A Connecticut Yankee inKing Arthur's Court' is nothing less than a brief for human rights andhuman privileges.
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