The letters of Mark Twain and Joseph Hopkins Twichell / edited by Harold K. Bush, Steve Courtney, and Peter Messent ; supplementary text by Peter Messent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, author.

Twichell, Joseph Hopkins, 1838-1918, author.

Contributor:

Bush, Harold K. (Harold Karl), 1956-2021, editor.

Courtney, Steve, 1948- editor.

Messent, Peter, 1946- editor.

Standardized Title:

Correspondence. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Correspondence.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Friends and associates.

Twichell, Joseph Hopkins, 1838-1918--Correspondence.

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

Twichell, Joseph Hopkins, 1838-1918.

Authors, American--19th century--Correspondence.

Authors, American.

Military chaplains.

Clergy.

Friends and associates.

United States.

Connecticut.

Clergy--Connecticut--Correspondence.

Military chaplains--United States--Correspondence.

Friendship.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Records and correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

x, 447 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia, [2017]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780820350752

0820350753

OCLC:

958422183