ALS, [1908 July 28] : Redding, Connecticut, to Jean Clemens.

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ALS, [1908 July 28] : Redding, Connecticut, to Jean Clemens.

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Twain writes to his daughter: "I am very glad you enjoy sailing. Sixty years ago I think I ranked it above all pleasures." He also says: "I am doing very very very very little work. I am sorry, but I can't help it--without an effort, & I have ceased from having a liking for efforts. I seem to greatly prefer cards, & billards, & reading, & smoking, & lying around in the shade. However I worked 60 years, & if I am ever going to take a holiday it is time I was at it."

3 p. ; 16.5 x 12.5 cm.

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...

Clemens, Jane Lampton, 1880-1909

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