@article{1380791,
      recid = {1380791},
      author = {Twain, Mark, and Twichell, Joseph Hopkins, and Bush,  Harold K. and Courtney, Steve, and Messent, Peter,},
      title = {The letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell /},
      pages = {x, 447 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1380791},
}