circa 1910

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Pamphlet

Title: The suppressed chapter of "life on the Mississippi"

Leaflet consisting of the suppressed chapter of Twain's book Life on the Mississippi, which was published in 1883. First edition. Marked as number 230 of 250 numbered copies of the first printing. Comparing Northern and Southern society, Twain discusses public indifference. Criticizes the tendency for Southerners to maintain similar opinions and to vote the same way. Opens by stating "I missed one thing in the South- African slavery. That horror is gone, and permanently ... half the South is at last emancipated, half the South is free. But the white half is apparently as far from…

GLC05847

1905

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Book signed

Title: Henry Wellington Wack

Henry Wellington Wack: "The story of the free Congo State..." signed by Clemens with autograph note above frontpiece portrait: "A bucket of whitewash for the miscreant King Leopold."

GLC08137

1885/12/24

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Yale Law school.

Offers to fund a black student's education to Yale Law School: "we have ground the manhood out of them & the shame is ours, not theirs."

GLC07971