Autograph autobiographical notes signed : [Hartford] : [1873 late Jan. or early Feb.].

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Autograph autobiographical notes signed : [Hartford] : [1873 late Jan. or early Feb.].

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Autobiographical sketch up to 1872, including an anecdote about his intention in 1855 to take a ship from New Orleans to "explore the river Amazon & open up a commerce in the marvelous herb called Coca," noting that he was "broken-hearted to find that a vessel would not be likely to leave N[ew] O[rleans] for Para during the next generation." Describing life as a pilot on the Mississippi his and "first literary overture" which caused a very old pilot, Captain Sellers, who had previously published under the name "Mark Twain" never to write again. Describing travels to Nevada, where he "got the silver fever," later travels to California and the Sandwich Islands, and how, on the death of Sellers, he "jumped his nom de plume before the old man was cold."

1 item (11 p.) ; 18.7 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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