"I Prefer To Be Sued If It Would Not Discommode You Too Much": A Lost Samuel Clemens Letter(*).
| Publisher | Mississippi State University |
| Publication | The Mississippi Quarterly |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0026-637X |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Published | 2000-03-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | CARL PRACHT |
| Author | n/a | Dean Shackelford |
| Person | Records and correspondence | Mark Twain |
SAMUEL CLEMENS, BETTER KNOWN AS MARK TWAIN, was born in 1835 when Halley's Comet burst forth in the sky. A native Missourian, he has historically been perceived as a Southern writer due, among other reasons, to his popular travel book Life on the Mississippi and his Southern sensibility about such issues as race and class. His letters have been published in several volumes.
One letter in particular was presumably lost, as this passage from Mark Twain's Letters suggests: "A FINE LETTER, in which Clemens mentions that he is to be married in a week, and must therefore...
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