Samuel Langhorne Clemens collection of papers, 1856-1938 bulk (1870-1938).

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Creator

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910.

Location

Berg Collection of English and American Literature

Extent

• 717 items.

Access Restrictions

Restricted access; Berg Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Scope/Contents Notes

This is a synthetic collection consisting of portraits, pictorial works, manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence,a diary for 1885, a notebook for 1895, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts and typescripts include drafts and manuscripts of novels, short stories, poems, articles and essays, and lectures.

The correspondence includes letters and telegrams, dating from 1867 to 1909, from the author to Sylvester Baxter, Elisha Bliss, Frank Bliss, Andrew Carnegie, AndrewChatto, Chatto & Windus, his wife Olivia, his brother Orion Clemens, Frederick Duneka, Franklin Fuller, Fred J. Hall, William Dean Howells, Isabel Lyon, James R. Osgood, the Rev. Edwin P. Parker, James B. Pond, James Redpath, Henry Huddleston Rogers, Theodore Roosevelt, Percy Spalding, A. R. Spofford, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Teller, Irving S. Underhill, and to others. There are also a number of copies of letters in Isabel Lyon's hand. The correspondence also includes letters relating to the author, dating from 1862 to 1935, between various correspondents including N. M. Butler, Sir Hugh Walpole, Moncure Daniel Conway, Andrew Chatto, W. D. Howells, Frederick Duneka, Merle Johnson, J. N. Larned, Isabel Lyon,W. T. H. Howe, E. W. Nye, A. B. Paine, G. H. Putnam, F. N.Doubleday, Major James Burton Pond, Romaine W. Seaver, Thomas E. Sherman, P. T. Sherman, Bram Stoker, and others.Also present are letters to Clemens from Thomas Bailey Aldrich, William Dean Howells, Henry H. Rogers, and others.

Biographical/Historical Note

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and literary and social critic. Born on November 30, 1835 he wrote fiction and non-fiction under the pseudonyms Mark Twain, Sieur Louis de Conte, Quentin Curtius Snodgrass, and Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass.

Controlled Access Terms

• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Portraits.
• Correspondence.
• Diaries.
• Notebooks.

Additional Creator Names

• Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907.
• Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927.
• Bliss, Elisha.
• Bliss, Francis E. (Francis Edward)
• Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947.
• Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925.
• Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919.
• Chatto, Andrew.
• Clemens, Olivia Langdon, 1845-1904.
• Clemens, Orion, 1825-1897.
• Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907.
• Doubleday, Frank Nelson, 1862-1934.
• Duneka, Frederick A., d. 1919.
• Frohman, Charles, 1860-1915.
• Fuller, Franklin.
• Hall, Fred J.
• Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup)
• Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.
• Larned, J. N. (Josephus Nelson), 1836-1913.
• Johnson, Merle De Vore, 1874-1935.
• Lyon, Isabel, 1863-1958.
• Nye, Bill, 1850-1896.
• Osgood, James R. (James Ripley), 1836-1892.
• Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937.
• Parker, Edwin Pond, 1836-1920.
• Pond, James B. (James Burton), 1838-1903.
• Pond, Ozias W.
• Putnam, George Haven, 1844-1930.
• Redpath, James, 1833-1891.
• Rogers, Henry Huddleston, 1879-1935.
• Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
• Seaver, Romaine W.
• Sherman, P. Tecumseh (Philemon Tecumseh), 1867-1941.
• Sherman, Thomas Ewing, 1856-1933.
• Spalding, Percy.
• Spofford, Ainsworth Rand, 1825-1908.
• Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912.
• Teller, Charlotte, b. 1876.
• Ticknor, Benjamin Holt, 1842-1919.
• Underhill, Irving S., 1866-1937.
• Walpole, Hugh, Sir, 1884-1941.
• Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900.
• American Publishing Company (Hartford, Conn.)
• Chatto & Windus (Firm)
• Arnold, William Harris, 1854-1923. fmo
• Blackmer, Margaret. fmo
• Gable, William F., 1856-1921. fmo
• Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) fmo
• Mendleson, Alan Norman. fmo
• Terry, Seth Sprague, 1862-1932. fmo
• Young, Owen D., 1874- fmo
• American Play Company. fmo