Image from page 132 of "Mark Twain : a biography : the personal and literary life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens" (1912)
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Title: Mark Twain : a biography : the personal and literary life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Authors: Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 Humorists, American Authors, American Journalists
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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MARK TWAIN IN STUDY AT QUARRY FARM BEGINNING TOM SAWYER manuscripts of that period, but it is unlikely that it willever see the light of print.1 The Tom Sawyer tale progressed steadily and satis-factorily. Clemens wrote Dr. Brown: I have been writing fifty pages of manuscript a day, onan average, for some time now, on a book (a story), andconsequently have been so wrapped up in it, and dead toeverything else, that I have fallen mighty short in letter-writing. . . . On hot days I spread the study wide open, anchor my papersdown with brickbats, and write in the midst of the hurricane,clothed in the same thin linen we make shirts of. He incloses some photographs in this letter. The group [he says] represents the vine-clad carriageway infront of the farm-house. On the left is Megalopis sitting in thelap of her German nurse-maid. I am sitting behind them.Mrs. Crane is in the center. Mr. Crane next to her. ThenMrs. Clemens and the new baby. Her Irish nurse stands at herback. Then comes the
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Image from page 132 of "Mark Twain : a biography : the personal and literary life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens" (1912)
Identifier: marktwainbiograp2pain
Title: Mark Twain : a biography : the personal and literary life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Authors: Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 Humorists, American Authors, American Journalists
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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MARK TWAIN IN STUDY AT QUARRY FARM BEGINNING TOM SAWYER manuscripts of that period, but it is unlikely that it willever see the light of print.1 The Tom Sawyer tale progressed steadily and satis-factorily. Clemens wrote Dr. Brown: I have been writing fifty pages of manuscript a day, onan average, for some time now, on a book (a story), andconsequently have been so wrapped up in it, and dead toeverything else, that I have fallen mighty short in letter-writing. . . . On hot days I spread the study wide open, anchor my papersdown with brickbats, and write in the midst of the hurricane,clothed in the same thin linen we make shirts of. He incloses some photographs in this letter. The group [he says] represents the vine-clad carriageway infront of the farm-house. On the left is Megalopis sitting in thelap of her German nurse-maid. I am sitting behind them.Mrs. Crane is in the center. Mr. Crane next to her. ThenMrs. Clemens and the new baby. Her Irish nurse stands at herback. Then comes the
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