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Clemens, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain"). A COLLECTION RELATING TO HIS RESIDENCE IN LONDON, COMPRISING: i) 12 sepia toned silverprints by the Victorian photographer Arthur Dunn, five depicting Clemens and his family; the remainder of Dollis Hill House and park during the period of Clemens's residence there, each photograph 70 x 95mm., in an album with an additional print of one photograph on the upper cover, 1900, some silvering, binding chipped and worn ii) cabinet size photograph of Twain with his wife and daughters at Dollis Hill (later print), stamped A. Dunn, Willesden iii) three autograph letters signed by Clemens ("S.L. Clemens"), to W.R. Dunn, agreeing to be photographed by his son Arthur ("...if you will call at the house any time after 9.45 you will find me up & at leisure...") and commenting on the results ("...I have not seen finer photographs than those six pictures of Dollis Hill & the family taken by your son..."), 3 pages, 4to and 8vo, integral blanks, headed stationery, London and New York, 20 September [1900] to 3 January 1902, laid down in an album, one lightly stained iv) original photographic printer's block of head-and-shoulders portrait of Mark Twain, 62 x 50mm. v) related material: the remainder of the album with letters by various other correspondents including Twain's cousin and biographer Cyril Clemens, and Lord Aberdeen, the owner of Dollis Hill House, relating to photographs, together with press cuttings about Dunn's photography and local events in north west London, altogether about 50 pages, plus blanks, 1897-1929