Samuel Langhorne Clemens miscellany, 1875-1905.

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens miscellany, 1875-1905.

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Letters, envelopes, calling cards, and manuscript. Includes a draft of the preface to Mark Twain's Sketches New and Old, dated March 1875 and signed "Mark Twain"; an envelope addressed to novelist W.D. Howells; a letter to Mr. Krueger, dated July 22, 1883, urging him to go to Cornell University and praising Henry William Sage and his wife; a card to S.J. Medill, dated Oct. 2 (no year); a brief letter to Michael Monahan, dated Feb. 4 and postmarked 1905, remarking on the scarcity of copies of "that Elizabeth sketch" (the work "1601," published under the name Mark Twain); and a letter to Mr. Hall, dated Oct. 5, 1885, on financial matters and other printed ephemera.

14 items (6 folders).

Cornell University Library

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Cornell University 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...

Cornell University

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Medill, S. J.

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Monahan, Michael, 1865-1933

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Michael Monahan was a poet and editor. Born in County Cork, Ireland, he moved to the United States and became a reporter and, later, editor. He wrote poetry and non-fiction, including works on Jean d'Arc and Heinrich Heine, and toured extensively as a lecturer. He founded the journals Papyrus and Phoenix. From the description of Michael Monahan correspondence with Geo. D. Barron, 1906-1907. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 61356032 ...

Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920

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Carolyn Wells published under the pseudonym Rowland Wright. From the description of Autograph postcard signed from W.D. Howells to Carolyn Wells, Rahway [manuscript], 19th or 20th century. (Folger Shakespeare Library). WorldCat record id: 694525270 Author, editor, critic. From the description of Letters chiefly to Alexander? Black [manuscript] 1888-1919. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647943111 William Dean Howells was an American novelist...

Sage, Henry W. (Henry Williams), 1814-1897

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Lumber magnate, benefactor of Cornell University, president of the Cornell University Board of Trustees. From the description of Henry W. Sage papers, 1814-1930. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63939095 ...