Hancock family papers, 1821-1935 (inclusive), 1837-1856 (bulk).

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Hancock family papers, 1821-1935 (inclusive), 1837-1856 (bulk).

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Correspondence of Hancock family members including two letters from John Marshall Clemens to his mother Pamelia (Goggin) Clemens Hancock as well as letters from Elsie Hancock to Paul E. Carrico discussing Mark Twain, Mary G. (Hancock) Saunders, and Mary Ann Pamela Xantippe Saunders. Non-correspondence materials include deeds for the family's land, William H.Saunder's certificate of citizenship, and Pamelia G. Hancock's will, among other items. These papers were gathered by Paul E. Carrico (apparently as research for a thesis at Notre Dame University).

1 box (.5 linear ft.)

Houghton 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...

Clemens, John Marshall.

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Hancock, Elsie.

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Saunders, Mary Ann Pamela Xantippe.

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Hancock family.

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Pamelia (Goggin) Clemens (1775-1844) was married first to Samuel Clemens (d. 1805) and, after his death, to Simon Hancock of Adair County, Kentucky. Her son by her first marriage, John Marshall Clemens (1798-1847), was the father of American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain). Her children by her second marriage were: Ann Hill Hancock, Mary G. Hancock, Pamelia G. Hancock, and a son whose name is unknown. Ann Hill Hancock married William H. Saunders of England; they had a daughter, Mary...

Saunders, Mary G. (Hancock).

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Carrico, Paul E.

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