Mark Twain Moves to Europe.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXI, Issue XVI, 17 October 1903, Page 3

Mark Twain Moves to Europe.

Owing to his wife’s poor health Mark Twain is offering his country place, at Tarrytown, United States, for sale, and with Mrs Clemens and his two daughters, will sail for Europe this month to take up his residence in Florence, Italy, where, it is hoped Mrs Clemens will fully recover from her attack of nervous prostration. “1 am looking forward to a good time there,” said the —humourist to an interviewer, "and I am sure it will do my wife good too. All our plans for the future, however, depend on her condition. We have now no occupation, nothing. She is our life. When I say we have no occupation. I do not mean that Ido no work. I have to kill time in some way, and I work to keep out of mischief. Four or five times a day we are permitted to steal into my wife’s room, but it is simply to refresh her with our faces, not our talk.” Speaking of his own sickness a short time ago. Twain said: "Why. that was a pleasant adventure, a sort of vacation, that gave me a legitimate excuse for spending five weeks in bed.”