Kilde

Fra notis til reporter Frank Marshall White, London, 31. mai 1897.

Kommentar til et rykte som oppsto i USA om at Twain skulle være alvorlig syk eller avgått ved døden under et englandsopphold.

Engelsk

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

Del av

James Ross Clemens, a cousin of mine, was seriously ill two or three weeks ago in London, but is well now. The report of my illness grew out of his illness; the report of my death was an exaggeration.