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I would like to thank everyone for helping me in my curiosity.
Roger Durrett (RWDTwain @aol.com) wrote
>That book must have been _The Adventures of Tom Sawyer_. I wrote the
>first half of it in ''72, the rest of it in ''74. My machinist type-copied
a
>book for me in ''74, so I concluded it was that one." --
> from "The First Writing
>Machines,"
> _Essays & Sketches of MT_,
> Barnes & Noble, 1995,
p.364.
Bill Bryson states in _Made in America_ p.115
He claimed in an autobigraphical note that it was _The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer_,
but his memory was faulty. It was in fact Life on the Mississippi.*
*Gies and Gies, The Ingenious Yankees, p. 311.
>From the many possibilities of whether SLC did or didn't use a
typemachine, for my
man Bill to say 'in fact' is a trifle previous.
I am impressed by the statistics that the Paige machine generates,
umpteen
parts, most voluminous patent application , a nervous breakdown, the
passing of a
life not to mention bancruptcy.
It has been a while since I delved into cross referencing 'facts' in
book.
The universe in a bibliography. Where to cry mark twain in a sea of
information?
Apologies for the 'personal' nature of my comments,
Regards Kurt Lawlor
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