MARK TWAIN IN THE SAN FRANCISCO DRAMATIC CHRONICLE
1865
[EDITOR'S NOTE: This item has not been previously republished elsewhere. It is included in this collection because of its potential to be the work of Clemens and is deserving of further research and consideration.]
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CORRECTION
We published an exquisite poem from the Grass Valley National the other day, and unfortunately made a trifling blunder or so in one of the verses, as follows:
"Then let our ruptures be beside
Some storm that peals in summer shade,
Whose showers shall duck the fattest bride
That booming Nature ever made."
It deeply humiliates us to discover how our wretched carelessness has marred that beautiful verse. It should have read, and would read, as follows, but for our execrable typographical blunders:
"Then, let our nuptials be beside
Some stream that purls in summer shade,
Whose flowers shall deck the fairest bride
That blooming Nature ever made."
The National was justly proud of its little gem, and we are deeply pained when we think what sorrow our heedlessness must have inflicted upon it.
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[transcribed from microfilm]
