Autograph letter signed "Mark Twain" with heading "About My Banquet" : Hartford, to the Editor of the Courant, [1874] Apr. 13.

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Autograph letter signed "Mark Twain" with heading "About My Banquet" : Hartford, to the Editor of the Courant, [1874] Apr. 13.

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Being a protest that he has not "received & paid the bill for a complimentary supper given him by his friends in Hartford," as reported in the New York Evening Post, and adding that the editor of the Courant gave the story correctly.

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Pierpont Morgan 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...