Mark Twain's Letters. Volume 3 1869 / edited by Victor Fischer [and two others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Twain, Mark, Author.

Contributor:

Fischer, Victor, editor.

Series:

Mark Twain papers.

The Mark Twain Papers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Twain, Mark 1835-1910.

Twain, Mark.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 705 pages).

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 1992.

Summary:

Don't scold me, Livy—let me pay my due homage to your worth; let me honor you above all women; let me love you with a love that knows no doubt, no question—for you are my world, my life, my pride, my all of earth that is worth the having. These are the words of Samuel Clemens in love. Playful and reverential, jubilant and despondent, they are filled with tributes to his fiancée Olivia Langdon and with promises faithfully kept during a thirty-four-year marriage. The 188 superbly edited letters gathered here show Samuel Clemens having few idle moments in 1869. When he was not relentlessly "banged about from town to town" on the lecture circuit or busily revising The Innocents Abroad, the book that would make his reputation, he was writing impassioned letters to Olivia. These letters, the longest he ever wrote, make up the bulk of his correspondence for the year and are filled with his acute wit and dazzling language. This latest volume of Mark Twain's Letters captures Clemens on the verge of becoming the celebrity and family man he craved to be. This volume has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and by a major donation to the Friends of The Bancroft Library from the Pareto Fund.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Editorial Signs

LETTERS: 1869

January 1869

February 1869

March 1869

April 1869

May 1869

June 1869

July 1869

August 1869

September 1869

October 1869

November 1869

December 1869

Appendixes

Appendix A Genealogies of the Clemens and Langdon Families

Appendix B Enclosures with the Letters

Appendix C Calendar of Courtship Letters: 1868-1870

Appendix D Lecture Schedule, 1868-1870

Appendix E Advertising Circulars

Appendix F Photographs and Manuscript Facsimiles

Guide to Editorial Practice

Textual Commentaries

References

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (de Gruyter, viewed November 28, 2022).

ISBN:

0-520-90608-X

OCLC:

1312726452