Excerpts from the Book 'Mark Twain A Biography 1835 1866':

... Bigelow Paine. Produced by David Widger. MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY. By Albert Bigelow Paine. VOLUME I, Part 2: 1866-1875. LIV. THE LECTURER. It ...
... The title-page bore Webb's name as publisher, with the American News Company as selling agents. It further stated that the book was edited by John Paul, ...
... Alta letters he says:. I think they are the stupidest letters ever written from New York. Corresponding has been a perfect drag ever since I got ...
... dissimilar, and altogether it was a hard, nerve-racking experience, climbing the arid hills of Palestine in that torrid summer heat. Nobody makes that ...
... for the seeming discourtesy of my silence. I wrote fifty-two letters for the San Francisco Alta California during the Quaker City excursion, about ...
... the most part, concerned in various commercial ventures. The church stood almost across the way from the Bliss home, and Mark Twain, with his picturesque ...
... of travel. THE PURCHASE OF A PAPER. It is curious to reflect that Mark Twain still did not regard himself as a literary man. He had no literary ...
... the conservative atmosphere of the Atlantic rooms. And Howells-gentle, genial, sincere-filled with the early happiness of his calling, won the heart ...
... must have shocked a good many Galaxy readers, as perhaps his article on the Chinese cruelties offended the citizens of San Francisco. It did not matter. ...
... with greater promptness than did the same class of readers at home. There were exceptions, of course. There were English critics who did not take Mark ...
... the Memoranda, and advised Mark Twain to admit that he was sold, and say no more about it. This was enraging. Mark Twain had his own ideas as to how ...
... charming fellow, whom Clemens had known on the Pacific slope. Keeler had been adopted by the Boston writers, and was grateful and happy accordingly. He ...
... to see his English publishers, and perhaps to arrange for a few lectures. He provided himself with some stylographic note-books, by which he could ...
... wanted changes), while the Clemens household, with Clara Spaulding, a girlhood friend of Mrs. Clemens, sailed away to England for a half-year holiday. A ...
... and the bear (which was a very little one, so little that when it stood up behind the sofa you could just get a glimpse of yellow hair) would lie ...
... and practical psychologies. Through them he lifted himself out of the slough of despond, and he sought to extend a helping hand to others. His ...
... the place, John Lewis and his wife (we shall hear notably of Lewis later), were not always on terms of amity with Auntie Cord. They disagreed on religion, ...
... still exist.]. The new enthusiasm ran its course and died. Three months later, when the Remington makers wrote him for a recommendation of the machine, ...
... with him. Any comrade of former days found welcome in his home as often as he would come, and for as long as he would stay. Clemens dropped his own ...
... usually preceded its own effort with all other examples, as far as perpetrated. Clemens discovered the lines, and on one of their walks recited them ...