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I had been engaged in writing the life ofThomas Nast, the cartoonist, and I had found among the material a numberof letters to Nast from Mark Twain. Governor Francis spoke a few words, to the effect that they had gatheredhere to unveil a tablet to an American poet, and that it was fitting thatMark Twain should do this. illustrious magicians who came hereequipped with nothing but a pen, & with it have divided the honors of thewar with the sword. I joined him at the GrosvenorHotel, on Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street.