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For the most part Clemens was content to let Henry Rogers do hisfinanciering, and as the market was low with an upward Hall worked like a beaver, and continually looked forward tosuccess. Clemens, in fact, felt relieved, now that the worst had come, and wrotebright letters home. ghts and laughter through the deserted streets--a desolation which would not remind you now, as f

The first check of two hundredthousand dollars, drawn February 27, 1886, remains the largest singleroyalty check in history. f out of it--on the ground that the first part is not delicate & the last part is indelicate. Youcannot get money on anything short of government bonds. I had discovered no copy of it among the materials, and he waswishing very much that he could see one.