Mark Twain, a Biography — volume I, Part 2: 1835-1866
Mark Twain, a Biography — volume I, Part 2: 1835-1866
Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937
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Beyond the isthmusClemens fell in again with his old captain, Ned Wakeman, who during thetrip told him the amazing dream that in due time would become CaptainStormfield's Visit to Heaven. He made the first draft of this story soonafter his arrival in San Francisco, as a sort of travesty of ElizabethStuart Phelps's Gates Ajar, then very popular. Clemens, then and later, had a high opinion of Capt. Ned Wakeman's dream, but his story of itwould pass through several stages before finally reaching t...he light ofpublication. --[Mr. John P. Vollmer, now of Lewiston, Idaho, a companionof that voyage, writes of a card game which took place beyond theisthmus. The notorious crippled gambler, "Smithy, " figured in it, and itwould seem to have furnished the inspiration for the exciting story inChapter XXXVI of the Mississippi book. ] In San Francisco matters turned out as he had hoped. Colonel McComb washis stanch friend; McCrellish and Woodward, the proprietors, presentlyconceded that they had already received good value for the money paid.
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