CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). Autograph letter signed ("S L Clemens") to an unknown recipient, Hartford, 17 January 1886. 3 pages, 8vo, minor browning, otherwise in fine condition. CLEMENS. Autograph note signed ("SLC") to [Frank] Bliss, n.p., n.d.; CLEMENS. Autograph note signed ("SLC") to an unknown recipient, n.p., [23 March 1881]; CLEMENS. Autograph endorsement signed ("Clemens"), 24 words, on a leaf of an ALS from his sister, P.A. Moffett, n.p., [8 July 1872]; CLEMENS, Olivia. Autograph letter signed to Bliss, Vienna, 9 January 1898. 2 pp., 8vo . REMEMBERING VIRGINIA CITY AND HANNIBAL, MISSOURI. The first item is a fine letter reminiscing about his early life on the Mississippi and experiences on the western frontier. Until the age of eighteen, Clemens had lived in Hannibal, Missouri, but in 1861 he ventured west to the gold fields of California, and soon became a reporter for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise . Here, Clemens searches his memory for early acquaintances: "I am not perfectly sure about Mrs. Brackett, for recent names & things take no hold on my bald-headed memory; they slip-up & slide off: but when you come to the names & things of thirty-five years ago, you are uttering music, & my memory is alert. We led such a rushing life in Virginia City, & made such an innumerable host of acquaintances, that that existence is all a foggy confusion in my mind, & I cannot name twenty people of that day & district with certainty." He notes a stronger memory of Hannibal: "Hannibal, thirty-five years ago, the new acquaintances averaged only about one a year & that sort of contract didn't wear-&-tear the memory much. I remember Urban E. vividly & pleasantly; & also the fencing-matches with column-rules & quack-medicine stereotypes; & lots of other things which would be rubbish in another man's mind, maybe, but I don't consider them so." He acknowledges that he has recently seen Pat McMurry and Wales McCormick and that he would like to see Hicks, who he would greet with "a barbecue and a torchlight procession." Together five items . (5)
CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). Autograph letter signed ("S L Clemens") to an unknown recipient, Hartford, 17 January 1886. 3 pages, 8vo, minor browning, otherwise in fine condition. CLEMENS. Autograph note signed ("SLC") to [Frank] Bliss, n.p., n.d.; CLEMENS. Autograph note signed ("SLC") to an unknown recipient, n.p., [23 March 1881]; CLEMENS. Autograph endorsement signed ("Clemens"), 24 words, on a leaf of an ALS from his sister, P.A. Moffett, n.p., [8 July 1872]; CLEMENS, Olivia. Autograph letter signed to Bliss, Vienna, 9 January 1898. 2 pp., 8vo . REMEMBERING VIRGINIA CITY AND HANNIBAL, MISSOURI. The first item is a fine letter reminiscing about his early life on the Mississippi and experiences on the western frontier. Until the age of eighteen, Clemens had lived in Hannibal, Missouri, but in 1861 he ventured west to the gold fields of California, and soon became a reporter for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise . Here, Clemens searches his memory for early acquaintances: "I am not perfectly sure about Mrs. Brackett, for recent names & things take no hold on my bald-headed memory; they slip-up & slide off: but when you come to the names & things of thirty-five years ago, you are uttering music, & my memory is alert. We led such a rushing life in Virginia City, & made such an innumerable host of acquaintances, that that existence is all a foggy confusion in my mind, & I cannot name twenty people of that day & district with certainty." He notes a stronger memory of Hannibal: "Hannibal, thirty-five years ago, the new acquaintances averaged only about one a year & that sort of contract didn't wear-&-tear the memory much. I remember Urban E. vividly & pleasantly; & also the fencing-matches with column-rules & quack-medicine stereotypes; & lots of other things which would be rubbish in another man's mind, maybe, but I don't consider them so." He acknowledges that he has recently seen Pat McMurry and Wales McCormick and that he would like to see Hicks, who he would greet with "a barbecue and a torchlight procession." Together five items . (5)
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