Life on the Mississippi : autograph manuscript : [Hartford].

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Life on the Mississippi : autograph manuscript : [Hartford].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270903964

Contains some unpublished and suppressed portions of the text, a portion of an unpublished Appendix titled "The Great Flood," and an unpublished "Appendix A" consisting of a printed clipping, "The River Battle at Memphis." With a typewritten transcription by a copyist of one page (MA 678, between p.679 and 680), many printed clippings inserted within the text, and a pen drawing of a crossing lamp (MA 677, p. 217 1/2). Revisions, emmendations and notes to copyists and compositors throughout.

3 v. (ca. 1260 p.) ; 22.1 cm.

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...