ALS, 1883 January 14 : Hartford [Conn.] to Mr. & Mrs. Gerhardt.

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ALS, 1883 January 14 : Hartford [Conn.] to Mr. & Mrs. Gerhardt.

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Clemens writes a critique of a picture Karl has sent him of a work on Paul Revere. This gives Twain an opportunity to express some of his theories on art. He refers to a sculpture of a horse "Mercury." "I think Karl's Mercury is a beautiful creation of Karl's not a copy of an existing work of art. If that were so, I should say compete for the Paul Revere ... but without better evidence than Mrs. Clemens I am not able to believe that so young a hand could create so fine a thing as Mercury. Therefore I do not advise Karl to compete, but at the same time I do not object to it ..."

8 p. ; 22.2 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...

Gerhardt, Karl, 1853-1940

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