ALS(photo), [1871 between June 7 & Sept. 28] : Elmira, New York / to Bret Harte.

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ALS(photo), [1871 between June 7 & Sept. 28] : Elmira, New York / to Bret Harte.

Autograph letter signed ("Langdon Clemens") to fellow humorist Bret Harte, penned entirely on an original carte de visite photo of Mark Twain's only son, Langdon Clemens.

1 p. ; 6.3 x 10.5 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7597284

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...

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...