Clemens's last days at Florence. He realized how honest and resolute and industrioushe had been. and thatas the fancy moved him, and a drawer in one of his dressers began toaccumulate fresh though usually fragmentary manuscripts. Then came a moreopen way, an abandoned grass-grown road full of sunlight and perfume; andthis led to a dim, religious place, a natural cathedral,
Clemens to Twichell in midsummer wrote: I am the only person who is ever in the house in the daytime, but I am working & deep in the luxury of it. I do not believe He has ever sent a message to man by anybody, or delivered one to him by word of mouth, or made Himself visible to mortal eyes at any time in any place. The Garden of Eden I now know was an unendurable solitude. Why, I am surprised at Howells writing so.
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