Thanks! I have since found the lines (quoted elsewhere in WWW-land, but not
with a citation:

"Huck comes back, 60 years old, from nobody knows where—and crazy. Thinks
he is a boy again, and scans always every face for Tom and Becky, etc. Tom
comes at last from . . . wandering the world and tends Huck, and 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 mold. They die
together. ” -- 1891 (?)

On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 5:16 PM Bird, John C. <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I believe it is in the Notebooks, although I do not have the volumes handy.
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> John
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> -------- Original message --------
> 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
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> 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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