Mark Twain's Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909 |
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Author:
| Twain, Mark |
Editor:
| Leary, Lewis |
Series title: | Mark Twain Papers |
ISBN: | 978-0-520-90506-1 |
Publication Date: | Apr 1969 |
Publisher: | University of California Press
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $84.00USD $126.00 |
Book Description:
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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....
More DescriptionThis 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.