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Literary Boston as I Knew It (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Literary Boston as I Knew It (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Among my fellow-passengers on the train from New York to Boston, when I went to begin my work there in 1866, as the assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly, was the late Samuel Bowles,...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Oliver Wendell Holmes (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Elsewhere we literary folk are apt to be such a common lot, with tendencies here and there to be a shabby lot; we arrive from all sorts of unexpected holes and corners of the earth, remote, obscure;...
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The White Mr. Longfellow (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)The White Mr. Longfellow (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)We had expected to stay in Boston only until we could find a house in Old Cambridge. This was not so simple a matter as it might seem; for the ancient town had not yet quickened...
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Studies of Lowell (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Studies of Lowell (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)I have already spoken of my earliest meetings with Lowell at Cambridge when I came to New England on a literary pilgrimage from the West in 1860. I saw him more and more after I went to...
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Cambridge Neighbors (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Cambridge Neighbors (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Being the wholly literary spirit I was when I went to make my home in Cambridge, I do not see how I could well have been more content if I had found myself in the Elysian Fields with...
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A Belated Guest (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)A Belated Guest (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)It is doubtful whether the survivor of any order of things finds compensation in the privilege, however undisputed by his contemporaries, of recording his memories of it. This is, in the first two or three instances, a...
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My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)It was in the little office of James T. Fields, over the bookstore of Ticknor & Fields, at 124 Tremont Street, Boston, that I first met my friend of now forty-four years, Samuel L. Clemens. Mr. Fields...
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The Editor's Relations with the Young Contributor (from Literature and Life)The Editor's Relations with the Young Contributor (from Literature and Life)One of the trustiest jokes of the humorous paragrapher is that the editor is in great and constant dread of the young contributor; but neither my experience nor my observation bears out his theory...
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A Rebellious HeroineA Rebellious HeroineStuart Harley, despite his authorship of many novels, still considered himself a realist. He affected to say that he did not write his books; that he merely transcribed them from life as he saw it, and he insisted always that he saw...
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Letters to Dead AuthorsLetters to Dead Authors Sixteen of these Letters, which were written at the suggestion of the editor of the 'St. James's Gazette,' appeared in that journal, from which they are now reprinted, by the editor's kind permission. They have been somewhat emended, and a...
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Old Love Stories RetoldOld Love Stories RetoldPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. This should be the first thing...
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The Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1The Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1This should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need...
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Mark Twain's Letters — Complete (1853-1910)Mark Twain's Letters — Complete (1853-1910) XII. LETTERS 1872-73. MARK TWAIN IN ENGLAND. LONDON HONORS. ACQUAINTANCE WITH DR. JOHN BROWN. A LECTURE TRIUMPH. THE GILDED AGE. XXIII. LETTERS, 1883, TO HOWELLS AND OTHERS. A GUEST OF THE MARQUIS OF LORNE. THE HISTORY GAME. A...
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Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 6 (1907-1910)Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 6 (1907-1910) XLVII. LETTERS, 1909. TO HOWELLS AND OTHERS. LIFE AT STORMFIELD. COPYRIGHT EXTENSION. DEATH OF JEAN CLEMENS DEAR MR. MOORE, The book has furnished me several days of deep pleasure and satisfaction; it has compelled my gratitude at...
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Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 5 (1901-1906)Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 5 (1901-1906) XL. LETTERS OF 1901, CHIEFLY TO TWICHELL. MARK TWAIN AS A REFORMER. SUMMER AT SARANAC. ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT McKINLEY. XLII. LETTERS OF 1903. TO VARIOUS PERSONS. HARD DAYS AT RIVERDALE. LAST SUMMER AT ELMIRA. THE RETURN TO...
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Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900)Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) XXVII. MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS OF 1887. LITERARY ARTICLES. PEACEFUL DAYS AT THE FARM. FAVORITE READING. APOLOGY TO MRS. CLEVELAND, ETC. XXXI. LETTERS, 1891, TO HOWELLS, MRS. CLEMENS AND OTHERS. RETURN TO LITERATURE. AMERICAN CLAIMANT. LEAVING HARTFORD. EUROPE. DOWN...
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Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885)Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) XVI. LETTERS, 1876, CHIEFLY TO W. D. HOWELLS. LITERATURE AND POLITICS. PLANNING A PLAY WITH BRET HARTE. XVII. LETTERS, 1877. TO BERMUDA WITH TWICHELL. PROPOSITION TO TH. NAST. THE WHITTIER DINNER. XVIII. LETTERS FROM EUROPE, 1878-79. TRAMPING...
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Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875)Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875) VIII. LETTERS 1867-68. WASHINGTON AND SAN FRANCISCO. THE PROPOSED BOOK OF TRAVEL. A NEW LECTURE. X. LETTERS 1870-71. MARK TWAIN IN BUFFALO. MARRIAGE. THE BUFFALO EXPRESS. MEMORANDA. LECTURES. A NEW BOOK. XI. LETTERS 1871-72. REMOVAL TO HARTFORD....
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Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1853-1866)Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1853-1866) VI. LETTERS 1866-67. THE LECTURER. SUCCESS ON THE COAST. IN NEW YORK. THE GREAT OCEAN EXCURSION. Nowhere is the human being more truly revealed than in his letters. Not in literary lettersprepared with care, and the thought...
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Roughing ItRoughing It This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than...
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