Manuscripts

Cyril Clemens collection

Description: A collection of correspondence, photocopies, printed material, and ephemera; the material is related to the International Mark Twain Society and the Clemens family. The correspondence includes typewritten letters from Arthur H. Chamberlain, editor of Overland Monthly/Out West magazine; the majority of the correspondence consists of photocopies of letters from famous people including Winston Churchill, Robert Frost, Gerald Ford, and Ernest Hemingway, as well as photocopies of letters from Clara Clemens, Olivia Clemens, and Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain). The ephemera includes printed material, photocopies, article offprints, magazines, and newspaper clippings about Mark Twain, Cyril Clemens, and Robert J. Burdette.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1888-1982
Call number: mssClemensc
Creator: Clemens, Cyril (1902-1999)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Cyril Clemens, 1969-1982.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
Associated people: Chamberlain, Arthur Henry, (1870-1942.)
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Cyril Clemens collection

Manuscripts

A collection of correspondence, photocopies, printed material, and ephemera; the material is related to the International Mark Twain Society and the Clemens family. The correspondence includes typewritten letters from Arthur H. Chamberlain, editor of Overland Monthly/Out West magazine; the majority of the correspondence consists of photocopies of letters from famous people including Winston Churchill, Robert Frost, Gerald Ford, and Ernest Hemingway, as well as photocopies of letters from Clara Clemens, Olivia Clemens, and Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain). The ephemera includes printed material, photocopies, article offprints, magazines, and newspaper clippings about Mark Twain, Cyril Clemens, and Robert J. Burdette.

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Clemens, Cyril

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Two letters of correspondence between Otis Chandler and Cyril Clemens, Editor of the Mark Twain Journal, regarding being on Richard Nixon's Enemy list.

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Mark Twain letters to Mary J. Mason Fairbanks

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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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Clemens family papers

Manuscripts

This collection contains papers of the family of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens including 7 diaries of his daughter Jane Clampton Clemens and correspondence and records of the family, including letters from all three Clemens daughters to their parents. The following individuals are represented in the collection: Clara Clemens, Jane Lampton Clemens (1880-1909), Susy Clemens (1872-1896), Mary Mason Fairbanks, Grace Elizabeth King (1852-1932), and Elizabeth Gillette Warner (1838-1915). Note: the collection does not contain letters by Samuel Clemens; he is only represented as an addressee. The collection includes 7 diaries of Jane Lampton Clemens, spanning the years 1900-1907. HM 53346 also contains 12 photographs that were inserted in the diary's opening for 1900, Nov. 11-12. The photos are not annotated in any way but several appear to have been taken in Europe, possibly Italy. The diaries, for the most part, cover the last years of her life, while she lived in Dublin, New Hampshire and a sanitarium in Katonah, New York. The diaries detail Jean Clemens struggle with epilepsy, as well as the medical treatments for the disease, circa the turn of the century. There are also letters and records including letters from all three Clemens daughters to their father, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, and to their mother, Olivia Langdon Clemens. There are letters from various extended family members and friends to Olivia Langdon Clemens, as well as, financial records from various companies.

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Correspondence, 1867-1871

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mssHM 14219-14325

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Correspondence, 1872-1895

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mssHM 14219-14325

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