MARK TWAIN
The Bar of America must at once raise money, etc."
(Applause)
Then Mr. C. got up and told his beautiful secret.
Aug. ii. The Queen of Roumanians friend was here.
Tuesday Aug. 12, 1902. At 7 A.M. Livy taken vio-
lently ill. Telephoned, and Dr. Lambert was here in half
an hour. She could not breath—was likely to stifle. Also
she had severe palpitation. She believed she was dying. I
also believed it.
August 25. Livy's illness hangs on and on from day to
day and there is never any great improvement—never
anything to rouse us and make us jubilant.
Wednesday, Sept. 3. Always Mr. Rogers keeps his yacht
(Kanawha) in commission and ready to fly here and take
us to Riverdale on telegraphic notice.
Tuesday Sept. 9. Livy getting along pretty well, though
it is a case of up and down, and down and up, no certainty
about it.
Cadwalader. Precepts and principles for a New Re-
ligion: Having for its base God and Man as they are, and
not as the elaborately masked and disguised artificialities
they are represented to be in most philosophies and in
all religions.
Corrected original ms. of "Heaven and Hell" and mailed
it. Jean is typing "The Belated Russian Passport."
Sept. 18, 1902. Telegram from Duneka:^1 "Thank you
very much for Heaven or Hell. It is great. Have you sent
^1 Frederick A. Duneka, general manager of Harper & Brothers,
New York City.
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