Ida Langdon papers, 1902-1964.

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Ida Langdon papers, 1902-1964.

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Papers, which pertain to Samuel Clemens, particularly to his life in Elmira, New York, include letters to Ida Langdon from Henry Nash Smith, Orville Prescott, and others regarding her talks on Twain, gifts of Twain memorabilia to the University of California, certain of Twain's writings, and related subjects.

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Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

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Mark Twain (b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 30, 1835, Florida, MO – d. April 21, 1910, Redding, CT) was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Twain served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pil...

Langdon, Ida, 1880-1964

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Ida Langdon taught English and was Chairman of the English Department at Elmira College. She was also a niece of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). From the guide to the Ida Langdon papers, 1902-1964., (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) ...

Prescott, Orville

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Elmira College. Mark Twain Festival.

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Langdon, Jervis

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Smith, Henry Nash

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Biography Henry Nash Smith was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1906. He took his bachelor's degree in English at age 19 from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he taught from 1927 to 1941, taking time out for his M.A. in English (1929) and his Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization (1940), both at Harvard. He subsequently taught in the English departments of the University of Texas (until 1947) and the University of Minnesota (un...

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