Photographs and Manuscript Facsimiles, 1874–1875
Reproduced here are twenty-seven contemporary images, many of them never before published, of Samuel and Olivia Clemens’s family, friends, associates, and place of residence during the period of these letters. Also included are the four pages of the program for the one-hundredth performance of the Gilded Age play in December 1874 and two of Clemens’s holograph letters, reproduced in facsimile. We provide these letters facsimiles partly for their inherent interest, and partly to afford readers a chance to see for themselves what details of the manuscript the transcription includes, as well as what it omits. Because of the imperfect nature of the facsimiles, close comparison with the transcription may turn up apparent discrepancies between the two.
Charles Kingsley (Harper’s Weekly 18 [7 Mar 74]: 213).
William A. Seaver (Harper’s Weekly 27 [20 Jan 83]: 37).
William S. Andrews, b. 1841 (Odell, 8: facing 18).
James Gordon Bennett, Jr., ca. 1871 (O’Connor, following 72).
Augustin Daly, 1875 (Joseph Francis Daly, facing 207).
Louise Chandler Moulton, ca. 1880 (Whiting 1910, facing 122).
Richard M. Milnes (Lord Houghton), b. 1809 (T. Wemyss Reid, 2: frontispiece)
Louis J. Jennings, 1870s (Elmer Davis, facing 58).
Jesse M. Leathers, late 1870s. In addition to his name, Leathers wrote “(Mark Leader),” possibly a pseudonym of his, and, on the back, “Exchange Photographs.” Clemens added, “American heir to the Earldom of Durham.” Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library (CU-MARK).
William Dean Howells and Elinor Mead Howells, ca. 1875, with their children: Mildred, John Mead, and Winifred. Courtesy W. W. Howells and the Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (MH-H).
P. T. Barnum and Nancy Fish Barnum, late 1870s (Barnum 1983, 187).
Mary Ann Cord, early 1870s. Papers of Leon Washington Condol, Special Collections, university of Maryland Libraries, College Park (MdU).
Rosina Hay, ca. 1874. From Olivia L. Clemens’s photograph album, page 12. Huntington Library, San Marino, California (CSmH).
Clara Clemens, 1874 (aged five months). From Olivia L. Clemens’s photograph album, page 23. Huntington Library, San Marino, California (CSmH).
Olivia Susan (Susy) Clemens, 1874. From Olivia L. Clemens’s photograph album, page 26. Huntington Library, San Marino, California (CSmH).
“Satin Programme,” printed on orange cloth, for the one hundredth performance of the Gilded Age play at the Park Theatre in New York on 23 December 1874, page 1 of a four-page folder. These programs were given to the ladies as souvenirs. Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library (CU-MARK).
“Satin Programme,” page 2.
“Satin Programme,” page 3.
“Satin Programme,” page 4.
Drawing by Edward T. Potter of the Clemens family home on Farmington Avenue in Hartford, completed in 1874. Contemporary printing in the Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library (CU-MARK).
Clemens to Charles Dudley Warner, 5 May 1874, Elmira, New York. Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library (CU-MARK). Transcribed on pp. 126–27.
Manuscript page 2, to Charles Dudley Warner, 5 May 1874.
Manuscript page 3, to Charles Dudley Warner, 5 May 1874.
Envelope, to Charles Dudley Warner, 5 May 1874.
Clemens to James T. Fields, 7 January 1875, Hartford, Connecticut. Huntington Library, San Marino, California (CSmH). Transcribed on pp. 341–42.
Manuscript page 2, to James T. Fields, 7 January 1875 (misdated 1874).
