Complete Letters of Mark Twain

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Mark Twain. Complete Letters of Mark Twain

Foreword

Mark Twain A Biographical Summary

Mark Twain’s Letters

I. Early letters, 1853. New York And Philadelphia

II. Letters 1856-61. Keokuk, And The River. End Of Piloting

III. Letters 1861-62. On The Frontier. Mining Adventures. Journalistic Beginnings

IV. Letters 1863-64. “Mark Twain.” Comstock Journalism. Artemus Ward

V. Letters 1864-66. San Francisco And Hawaii

VI. Letters 1866-67. The Lecturer. Success On The Coast. In New York. The Great Ocean Excursion

VII. Letters 1867. The Traveler. The Voyage Of The “Quaker City”

VIII. Letters 1867-68. Washington And San Francisco. The Proposed Book Of Travel. A New Lecture

IX. Letters 1868-70. Courtship, And “The Innocents Abroad”

X. Letters 1870-71. Mark Twain In Buffalo. Marriage. The Buffalo Express. “Memoranda.” Lectures. A New Book

XI. Letters 1871-72. Removal To Hartford. A Lecture Tour. “Roughing It.” First Letter To Howells

XII. Letters 1872-73. Mark Twain In England. London Honors. Acquaintance With Dr. John Brown. A Lecture Triumph. “The Gilded Age”

XIII. Letters 1874. Hartford And Elmira. A New Study. Beginning “Tom Sawyer.” The Sellers Play

XIV. Letters 1874. Mississippi Chapters. Visits To Boston. A Joke On Aldrich

XV. Letters From Hartford, 1875. Much Correspondence With Howells

XVI. Letters, 1876, Chiefly To W. D. Howells. Literature And Politics. Planning A Play With Bret Harte

XVII. Letters, 1877. To Bermuda With Twichell. Proposition To Th. Nast. The Whittier Dinner

XVIII. Letters From Europe, 1878-79. Tramping With Twichell. Writing A New Travel Book. Life In Munich

XIX. Letters 1879. Return To America. The Great Grant Reunion

XX. Letters of 1880, Chiefly To Howells. “The Prince And The Pauper.” Mark Twain Mugwump Society

XXI. Letters 1881, To Howells And Others. Assisting A Young Sculptor. Literary Plans

XXII. Letters, 1882, Mainly To Howells. Wasted Fury. Old Scenes Revisited. The Mississippi Book

XXIII. Letters, 1883, To Howells And Others. A Guest Of The Marquis Of Lorne. The History Game. A Play By Howells And Mark Twain

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XXIV. Letters, 1884, To Howells And Others. Cable’s Great April Fool. “Huck Finn” In Press. Mark Twain For Cleveland. Clemens And Cable

XXV. The Great Year of 1885. Clemens And Cable. Publication Of “Huck Finn.” The Grant Memoirs. Mark Twain At Fifty

XXVI. Letters, 1886-87. Jane Clemens’s Romance. Unmailed Letters, etc

XXVII. Miscellaneous Letters Of 1887. Literary Articles. Peaceful Days At The Farm. Favorite Reading. Apology To Mrs. Cleveland, etc

XXVIII. Letters,1888. A Yale Degree. Work On “The Yankee.” On Interviewing, etc

XXIX. Letters, 1889. The Machine. Death Of Mr. Crane. Conclusion Of The Yankee

XXX. Letters, 1890, Chiefly To Jos. T. Goodman. The Great Machine Enterprise

XXXI. Letters, 1891, To Howells, Mrs. Clemens And Others. Return To Literature. American Claimant. Leaving Hartford. Europe. Down The Rhine

XXXII. Letters, 1892, Chiefly To Mr. Hall And Mrs. Crane. In Berlin, Mentone, Bad-Nauheim, Florence

XXXIV. Letters 1894. A Winter In New York. Business Failure. End Of The Machine

XXXV. Letters, 1895-96, To H. H. Rogers And Others. Finishing “Joan Of Arc.” The Trip Around The World. Death Of Susy Clemens

XXXVI. Letters 1897. London, Switzerland, Vienna

XXXVII. Letters, 1898, To Howells And Twichell. Life In Vienna. Payment Of The Debts. Assassination Of The Empress

XXXVIII. Letters, 1899, To Howells And Others. Vienna. London. A Summer In Sweden

XXXIX. Letters of 1900, Mainly To Twichell. The Boer War. Boxer Troubles. The Return To America

XL. Letters of 1901, Chiefly To Twichell. Mark Twain As A Reformer. Summer At Saranac. Assassination Of President Mckinley

XLI. Letters of 1902. Riverdale. York Harbor. Illness Of Mrs. Clemens

XLII. Letters of 1903. To Various Persons. Hard Days At Riverdale. Last Summer At Elmira. The Return To Italy

XLIII. Letters of 1904. To Various Persons. Life In Villa Quarto. Death Of Mrs. Clemens. The Return To America

XLIV. Letters of 1905. To Twichell, Mr. Duneka And Others. Politics And Humanity. A Summer At Dublin. Mark Twain at 70

XLV. Letters, 1906, To Various Persons. The Farewell Lecture. A Second Summer In Dublin. Billiards And Copyright

XLVI. Letters 1907-08. A Degree From Oxford. The New Home At Redding

XLVII. Letters, 1909. To Howells And Others. Life At Stormfield. Copyright Extension. Death Of Jean Clemens

XLVIII. Letters of 1910. Last Trip To Bermuda. Letters To Paine. The Last Letter

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, for nearly half a century known and celebrated as “Mark Twain,” was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835. He was one of the foremost American philosophers of his day; he was the world’s most famous humorist of any day. During the later years of his life he ranked not only as America’s chief man of letters, but likewise as her best known and best loved citizen.

The beginnings of that life were sufficiently unpromising. The family was a good one, of old Virginia and Kentucky stock, but its circumstances were reduced, its environment meager and disheartening. The father, John Marshall Clemens – a lawyer by profession, a merchant by vocation – had brought his household to Florida from Jamestown, Tennessee, somewhat after the manner of judge Hawkins as pictured in The Gilded Age. Florida was a small town then, a mere village of twenty-one houses located on Salt River, but judge Clemens, as he was usually called, optimistic and speculative in his temperament, believed in its future. Salt River would be made navigable; Florida would become a metropolis. He established a small business there, and located his family in the humble frame cottage where, five months later, was born a baby boy to whom they gave the name of Samuel – a family name – and added Langhorne, after an old Virginia friend of his father.

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His lecture tour continued from October until December, a period of picturesque incident, the story of which has been recorded elsewhere. – [See Mark Twain: A Biography, by the same author] – It paid him well; he could go home now, without shame. Indeed, from his next letter, full of the boyish elation which always to his last years was the complement of his success, we gather that he is going home with special honors – introductions from ministers and the like to distinguished personages of the East.

To Mrs. Jane Clemens and family, in St. Louis:

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