[This article has been edited to include only the portions relevant to Mark Twain.]
THE PILGRIMS DINE LORD NORTHCLIFFE
And Hear a Little Chaff About the World as Presented in the Cable News.
The Pilgrims of the United States entertained Lord Northcliffe last night at a dinner at Delmonico's, and some 250 men, prominent in finance, politics, science, and journalism, joined in doing honor to the peer who is so emminent in British journalism. ...
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This characteristic telegram came from Mark Twain:
I am sorry indeed that I cannot be at the Pilgrims' dinner to Lord Northcliffe, whom I hold in high esteem and friendly regard. I ask him to forget for a moment that he is a legislator and join me in a health to the sacred memory of that great Englishman who on this day 303 years ago tried to blow up a Parliament which was meditating a limitation of copyright, but was defeated by the mistaken interference of a Providence more interested in spectacular mercy than in plain, square justice.
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