Mark Twain's Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909

by Mark Twain, Lewis Leary (Editor), Lewis Leary (Introduction)

Overview

This collection of correspondence between Clemens and Rogers may be thought of as a continuation of Mark Twain's Letters to His Publishers, 1867-1894, edited by Hamlin Hill. It completes the story begun there of Samuel Clemens's business affairs, especially insofar as they concern dealings with publishers; and it documents Clemens's progress from financial disaster, with the Paige typesetter and Webster & Company, to renewed prosperity under the steady, skillful hand of H. H. Rogers. 
 
But Clemens’s correspondence with Rogers reveals more than a business relationship. It illuminates a friendship which Clemens came to value above all others, and it suggests a profound change in his patterns of living. He who during the Hartford years had been a devoted family man, content with a discrete circle of intimates, now became again (as he had been during the Nevada and California years) a man among sporting men, enjoying prizefights and professional billiard matches in public, and—in private—long days of poker, gruff jest, and good Scotch whisky aboard Rogers’s magnificent yacht.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520014671
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	04/01/1969
Series:	Mark Twain Papers , #4
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	804
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 2.10(d)

About the Author

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), best known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an author and humorist noted for the novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (which has been called "The Great American Novel") and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, among many other books. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and he spent time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before finding fame as a writer.

Date of Birth:

November 30, 1835

Date of Death:

April 21, 1910

Place of Birth:

Florida, Missouri

Place of Death:

Redding, Connecticut

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Introduction

I. "Fussing with Business" (December 1893-February 1895)
II. "As Long as the Promise Must Be Made" (March 1895-August 1896)
III. "Our Unspeakable Disaster" (August 1896-July 1897)
IV. "You and I Are a Team" (July 1897-May 1899)
V. "This Everlasting Exile" (June 1899-August 1900)
VI. "This Odious Swindle" (October 1900-June 1904)
VII. "Nothing Agrees with Me" (July 1904-March 1908)
VIII. "I Wish Henry Rogers Would Come Here" (June 1908-May 1909)

Afterword
Appendixes
A Calendar of Letters
Biographical Directory
Genealogical Charts
Index