TLS, [1909] June 7, to Mrs. Hookway, Connecticut.

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TLS, [1909] June 7, to Mrs. Hookway, Connecticut.

The recipient of this letters, Mrs. Hookway, was the proprietress of a children's theatre in Chicago. All of the communications concern Mrs. Hookway's project, which apparently captivated Twain in his twilight years.

3 p., 20.7 x 16.9 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7350990

Copley Press, J S Copley 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...