Is Twain referring to an extant document in his Jan. 29, '01 letter to
Twichell?  "my own Private Philosophy--which Livy won't allow me to
publish . . . I planned it 15 years ago, and wrote it in '98.  I've often
tried to read it to Livy, but she won't have it; it makes her
melancholy.  The truth always has that effect on people. . . . " (_M.T.'s
Weapons of Satire_, 20-21)

thanks, larry marshburne              [log in to unmask]