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Everything supplied from the Department of State was a brief correspondence between Mr. Stoeckel and Secretary Seward, which made a quarter of a printed page. Mr. Sumner's speech, written in his own hand, made nearly one hundred foolscap pages, and the manuscript, which he gave me, is now in my collection of autographs.
Holloway as many autographs and portraits as you can of the American writers whom I have named, dear Dr. Holmes, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, Prescott, Ticknor.
'I think I remember having had a few interviews like that, with ladies out of doors. I hope SHE is not mad? 'Yes. 'On what subject? Autographs? 'No. She hears voices in the air. 'Well! thought I, 'it would be well if we could shut up a few false prophets of these later times, who have professed to do the same; and I should like to try the experiment on a Mormonist or two to begin with.
It would seem that each one receiving this letter must have responded to it, for on the morning of April 1st an immense pile of letters was unloaded on Mark Twain's table. He did not know what to make of it, and Mrs. Clemens, who was party to the joke, slyly watched results. They were the most absurd requests for autographs ever written.
Flappers and fluff-girls further embarrassed us with interested glances, and one of them asked for autographs. Marmaduke rose to the occasion. He smiled, produced a gold-tipped fountain-pen, and wrote with a flourish, "John James Christopher Benjamin Brown. Greetings from Dovstone." But Marmaduke the volatile was doomed to suffer a loss of dignity.
"Indisputable," said Raymond; "but this frank contained a letter from the second Sir Robert to my father." Mrs. Poynsett made a sign of acquiescence, and Cecil pouted in her dignified way, though Mrs. Poynsett tried to improve matters by saying, "Then it appears that Miss Strangeways will have a series of Peel autographs, all in fact but the first generation."
Mother's autographs are pretty uncommon," he said, smiling. "Why, doesn't she write? Can't she? Does it tire her?" asked Alice. "Oh yes, she can write, but she hates to. She gets Eunice or Minnie to write usually." "Dan," cried Alice intensely, "why didn't you tell me?" "Why, I thought you knew it," he explained easily. "She likes to read, and likes to talk, but it bores her to write.
Then there are patronising letters from people who say that I have put into words thoughts which they have always had, and which they never took the trouble to write down; then there are requests for autographs, and "sentiments," and suggestions for new books.
While the boys shouted over this effusion which is a true one their mother read several liberal offers from budding magazines for her to edit them gratis; one long letter from a young girl inconsolable because her favourite hero died, and 'would dear Mrs Bhaer rewrite the tale, and make it end good? another from an irate boy denied an autograph, who darkly foretold financial ruin and loss of favour if she did not send him and all other fellows who asked autographs, photographs, and auto-biographical sketches; a minister wished to know her religion; and an undecided maiden asked which of her two lovers she should marry.
I am impatiently waiting the arrival of portraits and autographs, and if they do not come in time to bind, I shall charge Mr. Holloway to contrive that they may be pasted with the copy of my Recollections to which Mr. Dillon is paying so high and so costly a compliment. Now I must tell you some news.
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