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This menu contains signatures and sketches by many of the attendees, including Twain, Richard F. Outcault (creator of the Yellow Kid), animator John Randolph Bray, Louis Wain, Charles R. Macauley, R.B. McClure, and Walt McDougall. The interior lists…

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This sketch depicts Twain delivering a speech alongside a seated Andrew Carnegie. It was drawn after a banquet held at the Engineers’ Club on April 19, 1906. 

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A keepsake for a dinner that featured Andrew Carnegie as guest of honor, this volume, which is bound in Scottish tartan silk and engraved by Tiffany & Co., includes a portrait of Carnegie, illustrations of the Engineers Club clubhouses, the dinner…

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The tour around the world in 1895 and 1896 provided Twain with source material for a new travel book, Following the Equator, published in the United Kingdom as More Tramps Abroad. 

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Mark Twain invested most of his wealth in a typesetting machine called the Paige Compositor in the early 1890s, and the failure of the firm that designed and manufactured the machine left him on the verge of bankruptcy. To recoup some of his losses,…

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This photograph of Twain is inscribed on the verso “To Mr. Lloyd, With the sincerest regards & esteem of S.L. Clemens, Melbourne, Oct. 26/95.” Clemens traveled and performed in Australia and New Zealand for 16 weeks during his world tour. 

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This carte-de-visite photograph advertises forty-five lecturers represented by the American Literary Bureau, including Mark Twain, James T. Fields, Bret Harte, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 

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This carte-de-visite photograph advertises forty-five lecturers represented by the American Literary Bureau, including Mark Twain, James T. Fields, Bret Harte, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 

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This page, nearly a decade into his career as a public speaker, shows Clemens’s growing confidence on the stage. In contrast to the detailed manuscript of his 1866 speech, in this artifact of an 1874 English lecture tour he gives instead a group of…

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This manuscript is part of the draft of Clemens’s first public lecture delivered in San Francisco. The fully-drafted speech shows that Clemens carefully prepared what he intended to say in this lecture, which he repeated at multiple venues in…
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