 
| Content-Transfer-Encoding: |
quoted-printable |
| Sender: |
|
| Subject: |
|
| From: |
|
| Date: |
Sat, 6 Aug 2011 08:51:26 -0700 |
| Content-Type: |
text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 |
| MIME-Version: |
1.0 |
| Reply-To: |
|
| Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
Does anyone know if the full text of a letter that Elizabeth Wallace included only in part in her book, Mark Twain and the Happy Island has been published anywhere? If it has, could you tell me where? I need to cite the portion she left out from a Jan. 26, 1910 letter to her from SLC.
The full quote I need to find is:
"Do I 'know more' than I knew before? Oh, hell no! There was nothing to learn (about hereafters and other-such-undesirables), there never has been anything to learn and know about those insulting mysteries. I am happy--few are so happy--but I get none of this happiness from 'knowing more' of the unknowable than I knew before."
She has it as "No, revelation--of a valuable sort--does not come through sorrow when one is old. . . . I am happy--few are so happy--but I get none of this happiness from 'knowing more' of the unknowable than I knew before."
What I am interested in, of course, is represented by those "dots."
Thanks,
Sandra Uetz
|
|
|
