The manuscript was sent to Beard, who met Clemens a little later in theoffice of Webster & Co. Jean had scarcely recovered her physical strength when she wasattacked by measles, and Clara also fell a victim to the infection. Howells acknowledges that he had some doubts as to the permanency of thevast acclaim of the American public, remembering, or perhaps assuming, anational fickleness. Clemens kept but a frail hold on life.
Furthermore, hefrequently expressed a deep obligation which humanity owed to the founderof the faith, in that she had organized a healing element ignorantly andindifferently employed hitherto. Clemens at the Twenty-third Street station,and now wanted to claim that honor. Clemens asked me to obtain for him some itemconcerning the obsequies. It was too denunciatory for that.
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