MT's Reply to CableMy Dear Cable -- Your letter came yesterday evening, your telegram about noon. My dear boy, don't give yourself any discomfort about the slander of a professional newspaper liar--we cannot escape such things. I do assure you that this thing did not distress me, or even disturb the flow of my talk (got it at breakfast some days ago), for one single half of a half of a hundredth part of a second; in the same length of time it went out of my mind & was forgotten. To take notice of it in print is a thing which would never have occurred to me. Why, dear friend, flirt it out of your mind, straight off. S. L. Clemens |
| SOURCE: Guy A. Cardwell, Twins
of Genius (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press,
1953). |
