SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS, for nearly half a century known and celebrated as “Mark Twain,” was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835. He was one of the foremost American philosophers of his day; he was the world’s most famous humorist of any day. During the later years of his life he ranked not only as America’s chief man of letters, but likewise as her best known and best loved citizen.
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Archibald Henderson’s “Mark Twain” (Part 1)
Introductory – By Archibald Henderson, with Photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn
Archibald Henderson’s "Mark Twain" (Part 2)
The Man – By Archibald Henderson, with Photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn
Archibald Henderson’s “Mark Twain” (Part 3)
The Humorist – By Archibald Henderson, with Photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn
Archibald Henderson’s “Mark Twain” (Part 4)
The World-Famed Genius – By Archibald Henderson, with Photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn
Archibald Henderson’s “Mark Twain” (Part 5)
Philosopher, Moralist, Sociologist – By Archibald Henderson, with Photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn
Mark Twain: Encyclopedia Britannica Entry, 1911
“Mark Twain” Entry from the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 Edition.
Mark Twain is Dead at 74
“Danbury, Conn., April 21 — Samuel Langhorne Clemens, “Mark Twain,” died at 22 minutes after 6 tonight. Beside him on the bed lay a beloved book- it was Carlyle’s “French Revolution” -and near the book his glasses, pushed away with a weary sigh a few hours before.”
My Mark Twain
It was in the little office of James T. Fields, over the bookstore of Ticknor & Fields, at 124 Tremont Street, Boston, that I first met my friend of now forty-four years, Samuel L. Clemens. Mr. Fields was then the editor of The Atlantic Monthly, and I was his proud and glad assistant, with a pretty free hand as to manuscripts, and an unmanacled command of the book-notices at the end of the magazine. I wrote nearly all of them myself, and in 1869 I had written rather a long notice of a book just winning its way to universal favor. In this review I had intimated my reservations concerning the ‘Innocents Abroad’, but I had the luck, if not the sense, to recognize that it was such fun as we had not had before.
Obituary (Washington Post)
The Washington Post’s Obituary for Samuel Clemens, Published April 22 1910
