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Re: "Claggett"--Clagett
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Thu, 28 Mar 1996 08:38:13 -0500
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Bill Cosgrove wrote:
>         My Author's National Edition of RI (24 vols., 1913) has "Claggett"
> in chapters 27 and 29

Strange, but true.  My Authorized Edition does the same.  Apparently Harpers
decided Twain was wrong every time he attempted to write "Clagett."

At the risk of offending, thank GOD and the NEH for the Mark Twain Project.

larry marshburne               [log in to unmask]

In the first place God made idiots.  This was for practice.  Then he made
proof-readers. --Mark Twain

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