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Mark Twain's Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909: Volume 4

Mark Twain's Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909: Volume 4

Leary, Lewis
Twain, Mark
Leary, Lewis

Hardcover

Series: Mark Twain Papers, Book 4

Letters & EssaysLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0520014677
ISBN13: 9780520014671
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Apr 1 1969
Pages: 804
Weight: 2.65
Height: 2.10 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.26
Language: English
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.

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