Letter, 1866 Apr. 26.

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Letter, 1866 Apr. 26.

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Letter addressed to "Messrs Kimball" written at Wailuku Plantation asking the recipients to wait for him to travel to Haleakala and Haiku with them. Clemens asks for prior notice so he can arrive with his horse and includes a humorous description of his horse ("his strong suit is grace and personal comeliness rather than velocity"). Clemens notes that he is sending this original letter as well as two or three copies to ensure safe delivery of his letter.

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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...