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Manuscripts
This collection contains 104 letters from American author Samuel Clemens (also known as Mark Twain) to his friend and confidante Mary J. Mason Fairbanks. In addition, there are also single letters from Clemens to Fairbanks's husband Abel Whitmore Fairbanks (HM 14232) and the Fairbanks's children Charles Mason Fairbanks (HM 14317), and Mary Paine Fairbanks Robinson (HM 14292). The collection also includes one letter to Mrs. Fairbanks from Olivia Langdon Clemens (HM 14262). The letters from Samuel Clemens to Mary Fairbanks are often addressed to "Dear mother," and signed "Mark," or, occasionally, "Your son."
mssHM 14219-14325
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Manuscripts
A.L.S. 1 card. Hartford, Connecticut. Accompanied by an illustration of the Clemens's house created with "Dan Slote's new engraving process."
HM 14302.
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Manuscripts
A.L.S. 2 cards. Hartford, Connecticut. With envelope.
HM 14300.
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A.L.S. 4 p. Elmira, New York. Incomplete: p.s. only. This item is dated November 27, 1868, in the Mark Twain's Letters (University of California Press), volume 2, and included as a postscript to a November 26, 1868, letter.
HM 14243.