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id: 19987
title: Chapters from My Autobiography
author: Twain, Mark
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  doubtless dead by this time, a man with a name like that couldn''t live his life several times every year, and always in new and increasingly father''s house in Elmira, New York, and went next day, by special train, I said, "I think he has got all the vegetables he wants and is coming up matters which he hoped to be able to dictate next day; and he said time." From Susy''s nursery days to the end of her life, she and her that dinner of sixteen years ago, for he said the same thing to me about believe I was never so happy in my life, except the time, a few years my mother went with him to the head of the stairs and said good-by years ago, and I used to tell it a number of times--a good many He said his granddaughter, twelve years old, had read my books and


id: 2988
title: Mark Twain: A Biography. Complete
author: Paine, Albert Bigelow
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  Mark Twain in those days when you and he "went gipsying, a long time of the little lad whom the world would one day know as Mark Twain. Tom Blankenship one morning came to Sam Clemens and John Briggs and said If your memory extends so far back, you will recall a little sandyhaired boy--[The color of Mark Twain''s hair in early life has been So Sam Clemens got the little book, and presently it "fairly bristled" As long as he lived Samuel Clemens would return to those old days present) Mark Twain one day came upon the old imitation pipe. In Mark Twain''s old note-book occurs a memorandum of the frog story--a Of Mark Twain''s lecture the Times notice said: presently a little afternoon group was gathering to hear Mark Twain read letter telling of these things Samuel Clemens said: "Henry Ward Beecher Clemens said very little at the time.


id: 2987
title: Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910
author: Paine, Albert Bigelow
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  Clemens said that his first word of the matter had been a newspaper In a dictation following his return, Mark Twain said: In the library Clemens was presented to a Mr. Pole, a plain-looking man, sleep reading his books, and then he came down to personal things and shocked to read on a great placard, "Mark Twain Arrives: Ascot Cup DEAR, KIND MARK TWAIN,--For years I have wanted to write and thank think we could have sat there and let the days and years slip away this time, but long enough to cure him, he said, and he came back full of played billiards for a time, then set out for a walk, following the long Mark Twain''s second present came at Christmas-time. One of the pleasant things that came to Mark Twain that year was the In a letter which Clemens wrote to Miss Wallace at this time, he tells of


id: 2982
title: Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866
author: Paine, Albert Bigelow
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  Twain in those days when you and he "went gipsying, a long time ago." John Clemens believed that the years lay not far distant when the land The family at this time occupied a log house built by John Clemens the little lad whom the world would one day know as Mark Twain. later, the Clemens family gathered tearfully around Little Sam''s bed to early when Judge Clemens got up to saddle his horse, and Little Sam was Little Sam, then--saw an old man shot down on the main street, at Tom Blankenship one morning came to Sam Clemens and John Briggs and said If your memory extends so far back, you will recall a little sandyhaired boy--[The color of Mark Twain''s hair in early life has been So Sam Clemens got the little book, and presently it "fairly bristled" As long as he lived Samuel Clemens would return to those old days


id: 2984
title: Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900
author: Paine, Albert Bigelow
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  Howells, working like a beaver, in turn urged Clemens to setting that Mark Twain loved, and as he read there came a correlative Cord, by great presence of mind and bravery saved the lives of Mrs. Clemens''s sister-in-law, Mrs. Charles ("Charley") Langdon, her little The "Mark Twain" party, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Clemens, Miss In a written word of good-by to Howells, Clemens remembered a debt of A letter written by Mrs. Clemens at the time "General, let me present Mr. Clemens, a man almost as great as yourself." Last night, when I went to bed, Mrs. Clemens said, "George didn''t Clemens saw General Grant again that year, but not on political business. In that charming volume, ''My Mark Twain'', Howells tells us of Clemens''s In a sketch written a great many years later Mark Twain tells of "I''ve been doing it for a year, Mr. Clemens," I said.


id: 2985
title: Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900
author: Paine, Albert Bigelow
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  Clemens read a notable paper that year before the Monday Evening Club. Clemens'' note-books of this time are full of the vexations of his example--and we have been a long time in coming to him--Mark Twain. of his program told a Mark Twain story, at which Mrs. Clemens and the By the time the Grant episode had ended Clemens had no reason to believe By the end of ''88 the income from the books and the business and Mrs. Clemens''s Elmira investments no longer satisfied the demands of the With this work out of his hands, Clemens was ready for his great new On that day Clemens wrote in his note-book: long-neglected tale of Joan--"a book which writes itself," he wrote Mr. Rogers"--a tale which tells itself; I merely have to hold the pen." "Mr. Clemens, I have been wanting to know you a long time," and he was


id: 2986
title: Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907
author: Paine, Albert Bigelow
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  Five days after Mark Twain''s return to America, his old friend Clemens, the man, rather than to Mark Twain, the literate. Howells at the time expressed an amused fear that Mark Twain''s Meeting Beard a few days later, Clemens mentioned the matter and said: "We had a noble good time in the yacht," Clemens wrote Twichell on their He once told Howells, with the wild joy of his boyish heart, how Mrs. Clemens found some compensation, when kept to her room by illness, in the Mark Twain was the only man who ever lived, so far as we know, whose of years, by which time Clemens''s active interest was a good deal Twain was "the greatest man of his day in private life, and entitled to Clemens, coming to say good night, saw a little group about her bed, Clemens said very little at the time.


