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Dan Beard, president, was also toast-master;and as he presented Mark Twain there was a trumpet-note, an The fact that Alpha Centauri was twenty-five trillionsof miles away--two hundred and fifty thousand times the distance of ourown The guests were old gray Pacific coasters, he said, whom I knew whenthey were young and not gray. a gruesomepageant described in a document (unpublished) of twenty-two typewrittenpages which begin:

He may have forgottenit. MARK TWAIN--DEAR SIR,--Hearing that you are about to sail for NewYork in the P. I confess that I wassomewhat nervous at the awfulness of the occasion, but I reflected that Iwas powerfully protec n honor of the Seventieth Anniversary of the Birth of John Greenleaf Whittier, at the Hotel Brun