In _Mark Twain's Letters, Vol. 1_ (Harper & Bros., 1917), p. 113,
edited by Albert Bigelow Paine, he gives a string of quotes from
Twain's Letter #13 to the _Sacramento Daily Union_. The letter
was published June 21, 1866 and has an extensive description of
Charles Coffin Harris.  Paine quotes two phrases from Letter #13
used to describe Harris:

"a big washing and a small hang-out"  and
"a damn fool in general"

What source did Paine use for these phrases.  I do not find them
in the original microfilm for the _Daily Union_ nor in any of
the following which reprint the _Union_ correspondence from Twain:

_Mark Twain and Hawaii_ by Walter Francis Frear
_Letters from the Sandwich Islands_, edited by G. Ezra Dane
_Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii_, edited by A. Grove Day

Was Paine quoting from the original manuscript of the letters which
have never been published?

Barb