The letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell / edited by Harold K. Bush, Steve Courtney, and Peter Messent ; supplementary text by Peter Messent.
This book contains the complete texts of all known correspondence between Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) and Joseph Hopkins Twichell. Theirs was a rich exchange. The long, deep friendship of Clemens and Twichell - a Congregationalist minister of Hartford, Connecticut - rarely fails to surprise, give...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1. 1868-1871. First meeting (Hartford); the Twain-Olivia Langdon courtship and marriage; the Buffalo residence
- Part 2. 1871-1891. Twain's Hartford years
- Part 3. 1891-1900. Twain and his family as peripatetics; business failure; the death of Susy; continued exile
- Part 4. 1901-1904. The return to America; Livy's illness and death
- Part 5. 1904-1910. After Livy's death; the final years
- A brief afterword
- Appendix 1. Undated or fragmentary correspondence
- Appendix 2. Four further letters.