Chamberlain v. Feldman

In 1876, Samuel L. Clemens, under his pen name of “ Mark Twain ”, wrote a story entitled “ A Murder, A Mystery and A Marriage ”, and in the same year offered the manuscript to William Dean Howells, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, for publication. There followed, during the same year, some correspondence between Twain and Howells, in which was discussed an unusual project which the author had in mind: he proposed that a number of other famous writers of the period (such as Bret Harte and Howells himself) be enlisted, each to write his own final chapter for the work, so that for the mystery set…