Personalized burlap bag

Personalized burlap bag

N.p.

ca. 1900-1910

Clemens famously disliked typewriters, finding them “full of caprices, full of defects—devilish ones,” but he owned several throughout his career. This Williams “grasshopper” typewriter (called such because of the long-legged design that allowed an author to view their work as they wrote it) was one of the last that he purchased. Following her father’s death in 1910, Clara Clemens gifted these items to Harry B. Iles, the superintendent and groundskeeper at Stormfield, and they remained in his family through 1982.