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Based on a portrait painted by Italian artist Ignace Spiridon during Twain’s 1898 visit to Vienna, this color lithograph was produced to promote a stage adaptation of Puddn’head Wilson. Twain told publisher Frank Bliss that this portrait was “a long…

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Clemens memorialized the robbery at Stormfield with this illustrated parody of the nursery rhyme “The House that Jack Built.” He valorizes Isabel Lyon as “the Lyon that scairt the burglars that got the silver.”

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In 1908, Stormfield was burglarized by two men who purloined Clemens’ silverware before being interrupted by secretary Isabel Lyon. The next day Twain penned this “Notice to the Next Burglars,” offering instructions to future thieves. The manuscript…

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Clemens was a frequent doodler. In this document, he attempts to offer a young friend assistance in remembering the reigns of English kings with this absurd series of mnemonic illustrations: Henry I’s 35-year reign is represented by a bird with 35…

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In 1908, Clemens constructed a new home at Redding, Connecticut, which he called “Stormfield,” where he lived and entertained until the end of his life. Headed “Innocence at Home,” this scoresheet records a game of hearts played by Clemens, his…

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In a speech at the Banquet of the International Congress of Wheelmen held sometime around 1884, Twain commented: “It was on the 10th of May of the present year that… I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I…

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Twain wrote many of his most famous works while living at this house at 351 Farmington Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut, from 1874 to 1891, although most of his actual writing was done during his summer stays at the Langdon family’s vacation home at…

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In the late 19th century, many American cities published “blue books” listing their most prominent residents. This first edition of Hartford’s elite directory, printed in blue ink and organized by street address, lists the Clemens family on page 25.…

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Clemens was introduced to his wife Olivia through her brother Charles Langdon, a fellow passenger on the steamship Quaker City in 1867. She rejected his initial proposal, but the two announced their engagement in February 1869, five months before the…

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In this letter, Clemens writes to a friend he made at Angel’s Camp in California, recalling the time they “heard that chap tell about the frog & how they filled him with shot.” But the real purpose of the letter is to invite Gillis to his impending…
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