Sun, 15 Sep 1996 13:11:05 -0700
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Cordial colleagues is about right, and certainly very good friends though
not ideological twins. The Twain-Howells correspondence has been edited
by Henry Nash Smith and William Gibson and published in both a 2-volume
and a 1-volume edition. (I'm still in the market for the 2-volume opus,
if anyone has a set to unload.) The folklore is that Howells bowdlerized
Twain, but the more accurate view is that Howells, through the _Atlantic_,
legitimized Twain by making him more than a "mere" humorist. See Edwin
Cady's 2-volume biography of Howells (_The Road to Realism- and _The
Realist at War_).
Cordially,
Peg Wherry (your resident Howellsian)
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