| | 101 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 103 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 104 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 106 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Mark Twain, New York, to Joseph H. Twichell, 1868 Nov 28 [a machine-readable transcription] | | | | Published: | | | | | Description: | Sound the loud timbrel! —
& let yourself out to your to your most
prodigious capacity — for I have fought
the good fight & lo! I have won! Re-
fused three times — warned to
quit, once
— accepted at last! — & beloved! —
Great Caesar's ghost, if there were a
church in town with a steeple high
enough to make it an object, I would
would go out & jump over it! And
I persecuted her parents for 48 hours
& at last they couldn't stand the siege
any longer & so they made a conditional
surrender: — which is to say, if
she
[illeg.] makes up her mind thoroughly
& eternally, & I prove that I have
done nothing criminal or particularly
shameful in the past, & establish a
good character in the future & settle
down, I may take the sun out of their
domestic firmament, the angel out of
their fireside heaven. [Thunders of
applause.] She felt the first symp-
toms last Sunday — my lecture, Mon-
day night, brought the disease to the
surface — Tuesday & Tuesday night
she avoided me & would not do more
than be simply polite to me because
her parents said NO absolutely
(al-
most,) — Wednesday they capitulated &
marched out with their side-arms
— Wednesday night — she said over
& over & over again that she loved
me but was sorry she did & hoped
it would yet pass away — Thursday
I was telling her what a splendid
magnificent fellows you & your
wife were, & when my enthusiasm
got the best of me & the tears sprang
to my eyes, she just jumped up &
said she was glad & proud [illeg.] she
loved me! — & Friday night I left
(to save her sacred name from the
tongues of the gossips — & the last
thing she said was: "Write
im-
mediately & just as often as
you
can!" Hurra! [Hurricanes
of applause.] There's the history of it. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 107 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Letter to Elisha Bliss | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Description: | Finally concluded not to go to Paris. So you can take the Herald letters & put them in a
pamphlet along with the enclosed article about the Jumping Frog in French, (which is entirely
new) & then add enough [along side of paper: 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 25 c[ents] 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 112 | Author: | United States | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 113 | Author: | Wallace, G. B. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Slave Purchases and Breeding: Unruly Slave [a machine-readable transcription] | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Description: | I write for the purpose
of letting you know that I have a
very unruly negro girl of whom I am
anxious to dispose of as soon as
possible and supply her place.
Will you be so good as look out for
me a breeding negro woman under
twenty years of age? Also a young acting
negro man. If you cannot meet with
the slaves aforesaid I will be willing
to purchase a young or middle aged
negro man with his wife and chil
dren. I shall be glad to hear from
you immediately as
the negro of
whom I wish to dispose is a ver
dangerous character | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 115 | Author: | Williams, Jane E | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Slave bill of sale from Jane E Williams | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Description: | For & in consideration of the sum of one Dollar to me in hand
paid by Jared Williams Junr. the Rect. whereof I do hereby
acknowledge I have contracted & sold and by these presents do
contract & sell and deliver to the said Jared Williams Junr.
one Negro Woman named Nancy and the increase of her
body which said negro woman nancy I do hereby warrant and
forever defend by these presents to the said Jared Williams
Junr. and his hiers executors administrators and assigns
against
myself my hiers executors and
administrators and all and every
other person or persons whatsoever, In Witness whereof I
have hereunto set my hand & seal this 27th Day of June
in the year of our Lord 1816 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 116 | Author: | Williams, Randolph | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Letter from Randolph Williams to Miss Mary-Stuart, Oct. 31, 1895
[a machine-readable transcription] | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Description: | I might sit
down and at great length
tell you of the sorrow that
has felled my very soul at
the thought of the ruin at
the beloved old place and
then I might for a long time
tell of my heartfelt sympathies
with you dear people to whom
if possible, the destruction of the
sacred place means more than
to us who have dwelt there for
but a term of years — yet but half
would be told, so I will not begin
feeling assured that you know
well enough my feelings of
sympathy and sorrow.
So bright, however, is the prospect
for speedy relief and the rebuilding
of the old place that our sympathies
may be turned to congratulations.
Of course you have seen of
the good work in Richmond and
other cities. Here in Baltimore
Markham Marshall and I are
stirring things up and hope to
have a good report before long. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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