TLS, 1893 September 15 : New York, to William Webster Ellsworth, Century Magazine, Union Square, New York City.

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TLS, 1893 September 15 : New York, to William Webster Ellsworth, Century Magazine, Union Square, New York City.

Reports his arrangement of an interview of Mark Twain by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who is "intimately acquainted with the prejudices and delicacies of [his] composition, and will know how to slur over them ... Mr. Clemens has a better opinion of Mr. Twain, than anyone I know of, and this is likely to afford a pleasant and complimentary interview."

1 p. ; 29 x 21 cm.

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Copley Press, J S Copley 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...

Ellsworth, William Webster, 1855-1936

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Publisher and lecturer on literary topics. From the description of William Webster Ellsworth letters to Byron Johnson Rees [manuscript], 1919-1920. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 191118031 ...