ALS, 1877 April 13 : Hartford, to Miss Holmes.

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ALS, 1877 April 13 : Hartford, to Miss Holmes.

Clemens comments on his art, "I have considerably improved in figure drawing. I regard figure drawing as my specialty although some say I am as good at landscapes as still life ... they cannot tell my landscapes from my still life, nor either of them from my marine views.

2 p. ; 17.4 x 22.5 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...