Ah! Found it! Notebooks and Journals, Vol. 3. 1883- 1891. In notebook 30, from August 1890-June 1891.p. 606.

Two entries:

Huck comes back, 60 years old, from nobody knows where--and crazy. Thinks he is a boy again, & scans every face for Tom & Becky, etc.

Tom comes at last, 60 from wandering the world & tends Huck, & together they talk the old times; both are desolate, life has been a failure, all that was lovable, all that was beautiful is under the mould. They die together.

John Bird



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From: Dave Davis <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 3/2/21 5:09 PM (GMT-05:00)
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Citation to a discussion of the MT fragment about Tom and Huck as old men

IIRC, he jotted down about 10 lines of a projected tale in which Huck
returns as a senile old man, not realizing that he's been gone from St.
Petersburg for decades, and begins asking around for their old friends;
after which sad scene, Tom is located and calms him down, comforting him
...

And that's all. Where did I read that? It's not in anything I have on my
shelf, except possibly the (full) Autobiography?

Thanks for any and all pointers.

/DDD

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