Invitation to Mark Twain's birthday : [New York] : D, 1905.

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Invitation to Mark Twain's birthday : [New York] : D, 1905.

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Engraved invitation to the famous dinner at Delmonico's held December 5, 1905 in honor of Mark Twain's 70th birthday. The dinner was sponsored by George Harvey, also known as Colonel Harvey, editor of Harper's weekly and president of Harper, Twain's publisher. This particular invitation is to "Ambroise [sic] Bierce."

1 invitation ; 17 x 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...

Harvey, George Brinton McClellan, 1864-1928

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American diplomat, journalist, author, administrator for electric rail construction and owner/editor of several newspapers. From the description of George B. M. Harvey fragment of letter to unidentified recipient [manuscript], no date. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 420463354 American journalist. From the description of Letter, 1925 Nov. 23, Asbury Park, to Perry Walton, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184907231 Magazine ed...

Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?

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Ambrose Bierce was born in Horse Cave Creek, Ohio, on June 24, 1842. After military service in the Civil War, he settled in San Francisco, where he met Mark Twain and became a columnist and writer. Bierce became known for his sharp, sarcastic wit while writing for the "Argonaut," the "Wasp," and the "San Francisco Examiner." A member of the Bohemian Club, he became acquainted with many of the prominent San Francisco authors. After his retirement Bierce traveled into Texas and toward Mexico, at a...