ALS, 1912 June 27 : New York, to Manning Brown.

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ALS, 1912 June 27 : New York, to Manning Brown.

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Fuller describes his sponsorship of Mark Twain's lecture on the Sandwich Islands in Cooper Union, when Fuller was v.p. of Northern Pacific Railroad "and Mark was unknown. Tickets were 50 [cents] and few were sold. I papered the town and crowded the big hall. It made his reputation ..." Laments Twain's life-long smoking habit.

4 p. ; 22 x 14 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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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...

Brown, Manning.

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Fuller, Frank, b. 1827.

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Fuller, a governor of Utah and friend of Samuel Clemens, transmitted the first telegram from Salt Lake City to Abraham Lincoln. From the description of ALS, 1912 July 20 : New York, to Manning Brown, New Brunswick, New Jersey. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 14411160 Fuller, a governor of Utah, was Samuel Clemens's personal friend. From the description of AMs, [1911 October] : to the Editor of the New York Times. (Copley Press, J S Copley ...