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1Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter, Mark Twain, New York, to "Dear Folks" (Jane Clemens et al), 1867 Apr 15 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
 Description: I need not have hurried here so fast, but I didn't know that. All passages had to be se- cured & the Twelve hundred & fifty dollars fare paid in to-day the 15th, for the Holy Land Excursion, & so I had to be here I thought — but the first man I met this morning was the chief of the Alta bureau with a check for $1,250 in his hand & a tele- graphic dispatch from the proprietors of the Alta say- ing "Ship Mark Twain in the Holy Land Pleasure Excursion & pay his passage." So we just went down & attended to the matter. We had to wait awhile, because the chief manager was not in & we did not make our- selves known. A newspaper man came in to get & asked how many names were booked & what notabilities were going, & a fellow (I don't know who he was, but he seemed to be connected with the concern,) said "Lt. Gen. Sher- man, Henry Ward Beecher & Mark Twain are going, & probably Gen. Banks!" I thought that was very good — an exceedingly good joke for a poor ignorant clerk.
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