Mark Twain correspondence : incoming letters, 1813-[ongoing].

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Mark Twain correspondence : incoming letters, 1813-[ongoing].

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Letters written to Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), to his wife, Olivia L. Clemens, or their daughters, Susy, Clara, or Jane (Jean). Includes letters by Clara Clemens, and by his secretary Isabel V. Lyon written after Twain's death, April 22, 1910. Also includes letters between parties not members of Twain's immediate family, but containing information relevant to Twain's life and work. Correspondents include: Chatto & Windus, Cyril Clemens, Jane L. Clemens, Mollie Clemens, Orion Clemens, Mary M. Fairbanks, Harper & Brothers, William Dean Howells, Jervis and Olivia Langdon, Charles J. Langdon, Pamela A. Moffett, Samuel E. Moffett, James R. Osgood, Albert Bigelow Paine, Annie M. Webster, Charles L. Webster, and others.

Original letters: circa 15,000 items.Copies of letters held by other institutions: circa 7,000 items.

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Bancroft Library. Mark Twain Papers.

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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, Clara

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Clara Clemens was the wife of Ossip Gabrilowitsch and the daughter of Samuel Clemens. From the description of ANS : Munich, to Margaret Sloss, 1914 Apr. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122369535 American soprano; wife of Ossip Gabrilowitsch. From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : [n.p.], 27 November 1935, to Mr. [Harry Harkness] Flagler. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270564489 Clara Clemens was a daughter of Samuel Langhorne Cleme...

Clemens, Cyril, 1902-1999

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Cyril Clemens (1902- ) was editor of the Mark Twain Journal and president of an international Mark Twain society. Clemens was a native of St. Louis, Mo.; son of James R. and Katherine Boland Clemens; and a kinsman of Samuel L. Clemens. From the guide to the Cyril Clemens Papers, ., 1936-1976, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Cyril Clemens, born in St. Louis on July 14, 1902, died in Kirkwood on May 16, 1999. Distant cous...

Langdon, Jervis

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Clemens, Orion, 1825-1897

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Clemens, Jane Lampton, 1880-1909

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Clemens, Olivia Langdon, 1845-1904

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Olivia Langdon Clemens, also known as Mrs. S. L. Clemens (b. November 27, 1845, Elmira, New York-d. June 5, 1904, Florence, Italy) was the wife of American author Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)...

Harper & Brothers.

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Correspondence (129 letters) and typescript (unsigned) revisions and notes, 1954, (23 p.) concerning the publication of The Scope of Total Architecture by Walter Gropius. Includes 22 letters from Gropius. From the description of Correspondence with Walter Gropius, 1952-1956. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612369957 Publishing firm in New York City. From the description of Harper & Brothers Records 1817-1929. (Columbia University In the City of New ...

Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937

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American author and editor. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) and typewritten letter signed : Redding, Conn., to F.A. Duneka, 1908 Jul. 9-1911 Apr. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270611536 Author & editor. From the description of Letters of Albert Bigelow Paine [manuscript] 1910, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647934359 Albert Bigelow Paine was born in New Bedford, Mass., but grew up in the Midwest. For ten y...

Fairbanks, Mary Mason

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Chatto & Windus (Firm),

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Clemens, Mollie, 1834-1904,

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Osgood, James R. (James Ripley), 1836-1892

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James R. Osgood was a native of Maine who went to work for the publishing house of Ticknor and Fields. He eventually founded the subsidiary group James R. Osgood & Co. which was associated with many fine writers. The firm struggled financially, and when Osgood stepped down, was dissolved into Houghton, Mifflin. From the description of James R. Osgood letter to George L. Craik, 1879 June 2. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 54667691 Publisher....

Langdon, Charles Jervis, 1849-1916,

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Brownlee, Anne Netta,

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Lyon, Isabel, 1863-1958

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Langdon, Olivia Lewis, 1810-1890

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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...

Clemens, Susy, 1872-1896

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Webster, Charles L., 1851-1891

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Moffett, Pamela Ann, 1827-1904,

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Moffett, Samuel E. (Samuel Erasmus), 1860-1908

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Webster, Annie Moffett, 1852-1950,

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