This is a synthetic collection consisting of portraits, pictorial works, manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence,a diary for 1885, a notebook for 1895, portraits, and pictorial works.
Funding: Creation of collection-level record funded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.
Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Biographical/historical: Samuel Langhorne Clemens was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and literary and social critic. Born on November 30, 1835 he wrote fiction and non-fiction under the pseudonyms Mark Twain, Sieur Louis de Conte, Quentin Curtius Snodgrass, and Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass.