Margaret B. Taverner Papers, 1948-1961.

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Margaret B. Taverner Papers, 1948-1961.

Consists of notes, annotated photographs and bibliographies on relationship between California and Nevada locations and certain prose works by Bret Harte and Mark Twain.

1 box .5 linear ft.

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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...

Taverner, Margaret B.

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Educator. Associate Dean of Women, Stockton [Junior] College, Stockton, Calif. (1948-1961). Devoted spare time to researching the relationship between the Gold Rush prose of Bret Harte and Mark Twain and the locations which inspired it. From the description of Margaret B. Taverner Papers, 1948-1961. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 29977371 ...

Harte, Bret, 1836-1902

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Author and journalist. From the description of Papers of Bret Harte [manuscript] 1859-1901. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647940411 Harte served as editor of the Overland Monthly, 1868-1870. From the description of ALS, 1869 April 17 : San Francisco, to Mrs. Emily Gould, Rome. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 16700642 From the description of ALS, 1868 July 5 : San Francisco, to [Emily Gould]. (Copley Press, J S Copl...