The letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell / edited by Harold K. Bush, Steve Courtney, and Peter Messent ; supplementary text by Peter Messent.
2017
PS1331 .A487 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
The letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell / edited by Harold K. Bush, Steve Courtney, and Peter Messent ; supplementary text by Peter Messent.
Uniform Title
Correspondence. Selections
ISBN
9780820350752 (hardbound ; alkaline paper)
0820350753 (hardbound ; alkaline paper)
9780820350745 (electronic book)
0820350753 (hardbound ; alkaline paper)
9780820350745 (electronic book)
Published
Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia, [2017]
Language
English
Description
x, 447 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
PS1331 .A487 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
818/.409 B
Summary
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, given the general reputation Twain has of being antireligious. Beyond this, an examination of the growth, development, and shared interests characterizing that friendship makes it evident that, as in most things about him, Mark Twain defies such easy categorization or judgment. From the moment of their first encounter in 1868, a rapport was established. When Twain went to dinner at the Twichell home, he wrote to his future wife that he had "got up to go at 9.30 PM, & never sat down again - but [Twichell] said he was bound to have his talk out - & I was willing - & so I only left at 11." This conversation continued, in various forms, for forty-two years - in both men's houses, on Hartford streets, on Bermuda roads, and on Alpine trails. The dialogue between these two men - one an inimitable American literary figure, the other a man of deep perception who himself possessed both narrative skill and wit - has been much discussed by Twain biographers. But it has never been presented in this way before: as a record of their surviving correspondence; of the various turns of their decades-long exchanges; of what Twichell described in his journals as the 'long full feast of talk" with his friend, whom he would always call "Mark."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Twichell, Joseph Hopkins, 1838-1918, author.
Bush, Harold K. (Harold Karl), 1956-2021, editor.
Courtney, Steve, 1948- editor.
Messent, Peter, 1946- editor.
Bush, Harold K. (Harold Karl), 1956-2021, editor.
Courtney, Steve, 1948- editor.
Messent, Peter, 1946- editor.
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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.
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.