Nothing improves one so much as friendly correspondence.

Write again--and if there is anything in this memorial of yours that refers to anything in particular, do not be backward about explaining it.

We shall always be happy to hear you chirp.
'Very truly, etc., "'MARK TWAIN, 'For James W.N-----, U.S.Senator.' "That is an atrocious, a ruinous epistle! Distraction!" "Well, sir, I am really sorry if there is anything wrong about it--but -- but it appears to me to dodge the water-lot question." "Dodge the mischief! Oh!--but never mind.

As long as destruction must come now, let it be complete.

Let it be complete--let this last of your performances, which I am about to read, make a finality of it.