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Letter of Henry Mills Alden, New York, to Rossiter Johnson
Alden states the rates and standards of acceptance for articles in Harper's magazine.
Letter, 1875 April 29, New York [N.Y.], to [Henry Mills] Alden, [New York, N.Y.].
Richardson proposes to write an article concerning Williamsburg [for Harper's Magazine].
ALS
Exclaims his astonishment that an extremely humorous piece had been rejected by Alden's magazine, Harper's Weekly, because Clemens had not authored it. "Gold is gold, & varying the mint-mark can't alter its value."
Letter
ALS. Thanks Alden for sending him a copy of Alden's book, God in his world. Pyle addresses philosophical issues raised by his reading of the book. Also discusses the ideas of Swedenborg: "I have no desire to prosoletize [sic] but I know that a deeply rational mind like your own would find there a Divine spirit of Truth."
A Study of Death
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Under the sunset
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What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings
The volume includes Mark Twain's previously published philosophical writing. Fictional pieces (even some which develop arguments contained here) are ordinarily excluded, as are other works appropriate to different volumes in this edition. However, "Letter from the Recording Angel," "The Five Boons of Life," and "Letters from the Earth," although they are in a strict sense fictional, have been judged more relevant to the present volume that to the volumes of short fiction. "Things a Scotsman Wants to Know," previously unpublished, is included by agreement with the editor of The Mark Twain Papers, as being especially relevant to themes of this volume. Other unpublished items appear as suppleme...
