Call Number:

C1036

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.2 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Citations should be as follows: Mark Twain Collection, Box #, Folder #, Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1872-1908 (bulk) and 1872-1921 (inclusive)

Creator:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections and Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Form:

Correspondence -- 19th century, Ephemera., and Photographs--19th century.

Abstract:

Collection consists of material by or about the celebrated American writer Mark Twain, including correspondence, photographs, and ephemera.

Mark Twain is the nom de plume of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the American author and humorist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is famous for his stories with settings along the Mississippi River. His books include The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life On the Mississippi, and The Prince and the Pauper.

The collection consists of material by or about Mark Twain: correspondence, photographs, material relating to Twain's "1601," and ephemera. Correspondents include Olivia Clemens (his wife), Frank Bliss, Frank H. Ginn, Alexander Gunn, John Hay, Harold Loomis, Charles Orr, James Ripley Osgood, and Horace Russell.

Arranged by accession number.