[Thoughts on war from "The mysterious stranger" by Mark Twain], 1939.

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[Thoughts on war from "The mysterious stranger" by Mark Twain], 1939.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51609143

Calligraphic manuscript, dated Christmas 1939, possibly in Westmoreland Hills [Va.?], of a section on war from Mark Twain's short story, "The mysterious stranger", transcribed and illuminated by Enid Eder Perkins, self-employed calligrapher and illuminator who worked primarily in Washington, D.C. and New York City.

[10] leaves, bound ; 15 cm.

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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...

Perkins, Enid Eder, 1896-1973,

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Self-employed calligrapher and illuminator who worked primarily in Washington, D.C. and New York City. Perkins attended Hunter College and the Art Students League; she studied calligraphy with Arnold Bank and illumination with Irene Base. Most of her professional work consisted of testimonials and citations commissioned by J. Walter Thompson, the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, the Pan American Society of the U.S., and New York University. ...