The timing of those notebook entries is noteworthy. It looks like they 
are from Feb or March 1891, during the final months in the Hartford 
home, which they shut down and moved from in June.

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------ Original Message ------
From: "Bird, John C." <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 3/2/2021 4:23:15 PM
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Citation to a discussion of the MT fragment 
about Tom and Huck as old men

>Ah! Found it! Notebooks and Journals, Vol. 3. 1883- 1891. In notebook 30, from August 1890-June 1891.p. 606.
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>Two entries:
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>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.
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>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.
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>John Bird
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>-------- Original message --------
>From: Dave Davis <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: 3/2/21 5:09 PM (GMT-05:00)
>To: [log in to unmask]
>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
>...
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>And that's all. Where did I read that? It's not in anything I have on my
>shelf, except possibly the (full) Autobiography?
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>Thanks for any and all pointers.
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>/DDD
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