Mark Twain's seventieth birthday : record of a dinner given in his honor with photographs of more than one hundred authors of imaginative literature who were present upon that occasion, together with addresses by Mark Twain, W.D. Howells, Henry van Dyke, Richard Watson Gilder, Brander Matthews, George W. Cable, John Kendrick Bangs, Hamilton W. Mable, and others.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Birth.

Twain, Mark.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

Becker, Dorothy M. (autograph) (donor) (Culture Class Collection AC85 C5915).

Kirk, Clara Marburg, 1898-1976--(donor) (Culture Class Collection AC85 H8394).

Kirk, Clara Marburg.

Kirk, Rudolf, 1898- (donor) (Culture Class Collection AC85 H8394).

Local Subjects:

Becker, Dorothy M. (autograph) (donor) (Culture Class Collection AC85 C5915).

Kirk, Rudolf, 1898- (donor) (Culture Class Collection AC85 H8394).

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations, portraits ; 39 cm

Other Title:

Mark Twain's 70th birthday. Souvenir of its celebration

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Harper & Bros., publishers, [1905, i.e. 1906]

Notes:

Cover-title.

"'The Mark Twain seventieth birthday souvenir number of Harper's Weekly, published in December is entirely out of print ... In order to furnish a more lasting and valuable souvenir of this notable banquet, we have published an Édition de Luxe of the Souvenir Section (32 pages) on heavy coated paper with a handsome Japanese paper cover ...'--advertisement, 'Harper's Weekly', Feb. 17, 1906."--Cf. BAL.

"Printed from the plates, pagination removed, of the Dec. 23, 1905 issue of Harper's Weekly."--Cf. BAL.

"Contains Mark Twain's speech on the ocasion. Collected in 'Speeches, 1910'".--Cf. BAL.

"Contains a 'Sonnet (of 18 lines) to Mark Twain' and remarks" by William Dean Howells.--Cf. BAL.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy AC85 C5915 has tear on front cover mended with tape.

Culture Class Collection copy AC85 C5915 has various newspaper articles pasted on verso of front cover.

Culture Class Collection copy AC85 C5915 has autograph of Dorothy M. Becker, Reading, Pennsylvania.

Culture Class Collection copy AC85 C5915 has photocopy of one of the group portraits laid in.

Cited in:

BAL, 770a

BAL, 3487

BAL, 9768

OCLC:

228693276