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Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3 - 1869 (Hardcover, Revised)
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Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3 - 1869 (Hardcover, Revised)
Series: Mark Twain Papers, 9
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'Don't scold me, Livy - let me pay my due homage to your worth; let
me honor you above all women; let me love you with a love that
knows no doubt, no question - for you are my world, my life, my
pride, my all of earth that is worth the having'. These are the
words of Samuel Clemens in love. Playful and reverential, jubilant
and despondent, they are filled with tributes to his fiancee Olivia
Langdon and with promises faithfully kept during a thirty-four-year
marriage. The 188 superbly edited letters gathered here show Samuel
Clemens having few idle moments in 1869. When he was not
relentlessly 'banged about from town to town' on the lecture
circuit or busily revising "The Innocents Abroad", the book that
would make his reputation, he was writing impassioned letters to
Olivia. These letters, the longest he ever wrote, make up the bulk
of his correspondence for the year and are filled with his acute
wit and dazzling language. This latest volume of "Mark Twain's
Letters" captures Clemens on the verge of becoming the celebrity
and family man he craved to be. This volume has been supported by
the National Endowment for the Humanities and by a major donation
to the Friends of The Bancroft Library from the Pareto Fund.
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