Mark Twain's correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909 / edited with an introduction by Lewis Leary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

Contributor:

Rogers, Henry Huttleston, 1840-1909.

Leary, Lewis, 1906-1990.

Series:

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Mark Twain papers.

Mark Twain papers

Mark Twain Papers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Correspondence.

Twain, Mark.

Rogers, Henry Huttleston, 1840-1909--Correspondence.

Rogers, Henry Huttleston.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 768 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1969.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of correspondence between Clemens and Rogers may be thought of as a continuation of Mark Twain's Letters to His Publishers, 1867-1894, edited by Hamlin Hill. It completes the story begun there of Samuel Clemens's business affairs, especially insofar as they concern dealings with publishers; and it documents Clemens's progress from financial disaster, with the Paige typesetter and Webster & Company, to renewed prosperity under the steady, skillful hand of H. H. Rogers. But Clemens's correspondence with Rogers reveals more than a business relationship. It illuminates a friendship which Clemens came to value above all others, and it suggests a profound change in his patterns of living. He who during the Hartford years had been a devoted family man, content with a discrete circle of intimates, now became again (as he had been during the Nevada and California years) a man among sporting men, enjoying prizefights and professional billiard matches in public, and-in private-long days of poker, gruff jest, and good Scotch whisky aboard Rogers's magnificent yacht.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Editor's Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

Abbreviations

INTRODUCTION

I. "FUSSING WITH BUSINESS" (December 1893-February 1895)

II. "As LONG AS THE PROMISE MUST BE MADE" (March 1895- August 1896)

III. "OUR UNSPEAKABLE DISASTER" (August 1896-July 1897)

IV. "You AND I ARE A TEAM" (July 1897-May 1899)

V. "THIS EVERLASTING EXILE" (June 1899-August 1900)

VI. "THIS ODIOUS SWINDLE" (October 1900-June 1904)

VII. "NOTHING AGREES WITH ME" (July 1904-March 1908)

VIII. "I WISH HENRY ROGERS WOULD COME HERE" (June 1908- May 1909)

Afterword

APPENDIXES

A Calendar of Letters

Biographical Directory

GENEALOGICAL CHARTS

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9780520905061

0520905067

OCLC:

609850010