Mark Twain letter and documents [manuscript], 1903-1909.

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Mark Twain letter and documents [manuscript], 1903-1909.

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In a letter, [1903] January 14. Twain responds to an unidentified recipient's comments about the implication in his story "Was it heaven or hell?" that lying is possibly excusable under certain circumstances. Twain replies that on the day the story was published his invalided bedridden wife was not told that her daughter Jean was critically ill with pneumonia, leaving the recipient to decide whether deceiving his wife was persmissable in those circumstances. The letter is accompanied by tear sheets of the story from Harpers Magazine and an obituay for Jean Clemens who drowned during an epileptic seizure six years later.

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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, 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)...

Clemens, Jane Lampton, 1880-1909

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