Autograph letter signed "Mark Twain" : Hartford, to Elsie Leslie, 1889 Oct. 5.

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Autograph letter signed "Mark Twain" : Hartford, to Elsie Leslie, 1889 Oct. 5.

Explicating at length his work on the slippers he and William Gillette had embroidered for her.

1 item (11 p.) ; (8vo)

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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...

Douglass, Jane,

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Leslie, Elsie, 1881-1966

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Elsie Leslie (Milliken) was an American actress. She was also known as Elsie Leslie Lyde, Mrs. W. Jefferson Winter, and Mrs. Edwin Milliken. From the description of Papers, 1888-1944. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80781823 Child actress, best known for playing the title roles in the original LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY (1888-1889) and THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, Elsie Leslie returned to the stage as a young adult to star in THE RIVALS (1898) and other plays. Born Elsie Leslie Lyd...