MARK TWAIN

•\piil 7. nimnf with Kudynid Kiplini? and wife. Charles
\\ ,i! irji SfMiU.iiil thrir.

'1 hr uufrs tthirh follow scnmd dream material
;ind I la1)* wnr:

Monday ut*Mti, Aptil it*. At the Pakre compositor—Con-
nrrfinn C'".. l*th ,iiul Hinadway till 2:30 P.M. Fifty
machines well a!nw in building. < hit* will be finished July
I. Piosnit rapat-ify «*f fai tniy r»nr inarhiiu; a day. Factory
tr» he built when Incaiinn drv!dn! upon, five machines
a day.

CV»ntfidrr"m& pr«>pnsitif»n nf fiftrrn million company one
hnm fif»m Chifar<». Thry ufffird to ^ivc the Conn. Co.
t\M> inillinn dnllnis r>f thrii btuid:;, all the land they need,
and fivr million rash, if ihry will btiild a factory on their
land. This pmpoMtion is in wiiting.

The company intend tr> market 10,000 machines
(n*nu*d) with all pr»ssiblt» dispatch. All the printers are
hurrying thr rompany.

The above mat-hinrs are for this country alone.

The company tells me that my royalty will be col-
lectible on all fi»m#n machines manufactured by them,
By the end nf this year the company will be making one
machine a day, next year two—the year after, five.

The fifty now in the works will be completed one after
the other soon.

What a child he was: the company and the
factory were no more than the airy fabric of
Paige's vision. There was no real manufacturing
plant, no machines under way, except in Paige's
imagination. Paige must have been a hypnotist
to impose so repeatedly on Mark Twain. But
he imposed on others as well. At the end of this
note Clemens adds that the Conn. Co, is paying
him (Paige) #5000 a month until the first ma-
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