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1Author:  Pond, Major J. B.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Mark Twain and George W. Cable [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
 Description: MARK TWAIN and GEORGE W. CABLE travelled together one season. Twain and Cable, a colossal attraction, a happy combination! Mark owned the show, and paid Mr. Cable $600 a week and his travelling and hotel expenses. The manager took a percentage of the gross receipts for his services, and was to be sole manager. If he consulted the proprietor at all during the term of the agreement, said agreement became null and void.
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2Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter, Mark Twain, Hartford, CT, to Fred J. Hall, 1890 Dec 27 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
 Description: I don't believe Whitford. Webster was too big a coward to bring a suit when advised against it. The real mistake was in trusting law business to an ignorant, blethering gas-pipe like Whitford. I am not saying this in hatred, for I do not dislike Whitford. He is simply a damned fool — in Court — & will infallibly lose every suit you put into his hands. If you are going to have any [illeg.]lawsuits with Gill, I beg that you will either compromise or have some other law conduct the thing.
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3Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Regular Toast. Woman—God Bless Her [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
 Description: The toast includes the sex, universally: it is to Woman, comprehensively, wheresoever she may be found. Let us con- sider her ways. First, comes the matter of dress. This is a most important consideration, in a subject of this nature, & must be disposed of before we can intelligently proceed to examine the profounder depths of the theme. For text, let us take the dress of two antipodal types — the savage woman of Central Africa, & the cultivated daughter of our high modern civilization. Among the Fans, a great negro tribe, a woman, when dressed for breakfast, or home, or to go to market, or go out a pick-up dinner, or to sit at home, or to go out calling, or to a simple or to take a simple tea with friends & neighbors, or to go out calling, does not wear anything at all but just her complexion. That is all; that is her entire outfit. It is the lightest cos- tume in the world, but is made of the darkest material. It has often been mistaken for mourning. It is the trimmest, & neatest, & grace- fulest costume that is now in fashion; it wears well, is fast colors, doesn't show dirt; you don't have to send it down town to wash, & have some of it come back scorched with the flat-iron, & some of it with the buttons ironed off, & some of it petrified with starch, & some of it chewed by the calf, & some of it rotted with acids, & some of it exchanged for other customers' things that haven't any virtue but holiness, & don't fit you anyhow, & ten-twelfths of the pieces over- charged for, & the rest of the dozen stolen"mislaid." And it always fits; it is the perfection of a fit. And it is the handiest dress in the whole realm of fashion. It is always ready, always "done up." When you call on a Fan lady & send up your card, the hired girl never says, "Please take a seat, madam is dressing — she will be down in three-quarters of an hour." No, madam is always dressed, always ready to receive; & before you can get the door-mat before your eyes, she is in your midst. And the hired girl never has to say to a lady visitor, "Please excuse madam, she is undressing;" & even if she ever had to bring such an excuse at all, she wouldn't say it in that way: she would say, "Please excuse madam, she's skins, not herself!" Then again, the Fan ladies don't go to church to see what each other has got on; & they don't go back home & describe it & slander it. The farthest they ever go is to say some little biting thing about the ultra fashionables
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4Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter, Mark Twain to (Elisha) Bliss, 1871 May 15 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
 Description: Yrs rec'd enclosing check for $703.35. The old "Innocents" holds out handsomely.
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5Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter, Mark Twain to Captain (John E.) Mouland, (1872) Dec 3 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
 Description: You must [illeg.]run down next voyage & see us, if you can. Telegraph me what hour you will arrive & I'll go to the station & fetch you home. Mr. Wood stayed all night with us & then joined the Gen- eral in New York & they went West together. I wanted the General to stop with us, too, but his business made it im- possible.
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6Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter, Mark Twain, Hartford, CT., to Horace Russell, 1882 Dec 12 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
 Description: Woodford [illeg.] wrote me, & I answered; result, this arrangement:
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7Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter, Mark Twain, Langham Hotel, London, to (Elisha) Bliss, (1873) Jul 7 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
 Description: Finally concluded not to go to Paris. So you can take the Herald letters & put them in a pam- phlet along with the Enclosed article about the Jumping Frog in French, (which is entirely new) & then add enough [Written in margin: I enclose Prefatory remarks, "To the Reader." You can mention, if you choose, that the Frog article has not been printed before. of my old sketches to make a good fat 25 cent pamphlet & let it slide — but don't charge more than 25c nor less. If you haven't a Routledge edition of my sketches to select from you will find one at my house or Warner's.
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8Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter, Mark Twain to Augustin Daly, 1884 Feb 17 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
 Description: I have been dra- matizing a book of mine ("The Adventures of Tom Sawyer") & I wonder if you would like to take a look at the result, with an eye to business? If so, I will bring the play down when I return to New York Wednesday Thursday.
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9Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter, Mark Twain, Hartford, CT, to "Miss Harriet," 1876 Jun 14 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
 Description: I am a long time answering your letter, my dear Miss Harriet, but then you must remember that it is an equally long time since I received it — so that makes us even, & nobody to blame on either side.
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10Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter, Mark Twain to Edward Howard House, 1886 Jul 26 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
 Description: I have come up to the study to answer you. Mrs. C. & I had just read your (no, Koto's) letter. As I left, I said "What shall I say for you?"
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11Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter, Mark Twain, New York, to "Dear Folks" (Jane Clemens et al), 1867 Apr 15 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
 Description: I need not have hurried here so fast, but I didn't know that. All passages had to be se- cured & the Twelve hundred & fifty dollars fare paid in to-day the 15th, for the Holy Land Excursion, & so I had to be here I thought — but the first man I met this morning was the chief of the Alta bureau with a check for $1,250 in his hand & a tele- graphic dispatch from the proprietors of the Alta say- ing "Ship Mark Twain in the Holy Land Pleasure Excursion & pay his passage." So we just went down & attended to the matter. We had to wait awhile, because the chief manager was not in & we did not make our- selves known. A newspaper man came in to get & asked how many names were booked & what notabilities were going, & a fellow (I don't know who he was, but he seemed to be connected with the concern,) said "Lt. Gen. Sher- man, Henry Ward Beecher & Mark Twain are going, & probably Gen. Banks!" I thought that was very good — an exceedingly good joke for a poor ignorant clerk.
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12Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter, Mark Twain, Hartford, CT, to (George) Bentley, 1877 Sep 15 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
 Description: I sent you No. 1 of a series of 4 articles which I have been writing for the Atlantic Monthly, & with this I enclose No. 2. I saw Mr. Chatto in New York lately, & told him he could have these ad- vance sheets for one of his magazines in case you did not wish to use them. I have just writ- ten Mr. Chatto that I have not heard from you & therefore cannot inform him whether you want the advance sheets or not. I have suggested that he inquire of you.
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13Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter, Mark Twain to Unknown; on verso Mark Twain to Charles Erskine Scott Wood with AN by Charles Erskine Scott Wood, 1882 Aug [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
 Description: In reply I am obliged to say that I have quitted the platform permanently. With thanks for the complement of your invitation I am
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14Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter, Mark Twain, Riverdale, NY, to Unknown, (1901-1903) [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
 Description: The bearer is my daughter's maid, & I beg as a favor that you will allow her to have access to my daughter's room, so that she can unpack the trunk.
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15Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
 Description: 
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16Author:  United StatesRequires cookie*
 Title:  Declaration of Independence [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
 Description: When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.
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