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201Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Story of the Bad Little Boy  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Black-and-white illustration of a boy in a tree, reaching for a piece of fruit. A hat full of fruit and an anxious-looking dog are visible beneath the tree.
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202Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the bar-room stove of the old, dilapidated tavern in the ancient mining camp of Boomerang, and I noticed that he was fat and bald-headed, and had an expression of winning gentleness and simplicity upon his tranquil countenance. He roused up and gave me good-day. I told him a friend of mine had commissioned me to make some inquiries about a cherished companion of his boyhood named Leonidas W. Smiley — Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley — a young minister of the Gospel, who he had heard was at one time a resident of this village of Boomerang. I added that if Mr. Wheeler could tell me any thing about this Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, I would feel under many obligations to him.
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203Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Is Shakespeare Dead?  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: SCATTERED here and there through the stacks of unpublished manuscript which constitute this formidable Autobiography and Diary of mine, certain chapters will in some distant future be found which deal with "Claimants"—claimants historically notorious: Satan, Claimant; the Golden Calf, Claimant; the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan, Claimant; Louis XVII., Claimant; William Shakespeare, Claimant; Arthur Orton, Claimant; Mary Baker G. Eddy, Claimant —and the rest of them. Eminent Claimants, successful Claimants, defeated Claimants, royal Claimants, pleb Claimants, showy Claimants, shabby Claimants, revered Claimants, despised Claimants, twinkle starlike here and there and yonder through the mists of history and legend and tradition—and oh, all the darling tribe are clothed in mystery and romance, and we read about them with deep interest and discuss them with loving sympathy or with rancorous resentment, according to which side we hitch ourselves to. It has always been so with the human race. There was never a Claimant that couldn't get a hearing, nor one that couldn't accumulate a rapturous following, no matter how flimsy and apparently unauthentic his claim might be. Arthur Orton's claim that he was the lost Tichborne baronet come to life again was as flimsy as Mrs. Eddy's that she wrote Science and Health from the direct dictation of the Deity; yet in England near forty years ago Orton had a huge army of devotees and incorrigible adherents, many of whom remained stubbornly unconvinced after their fat god had been proven an impostor and jailed as a perjurer, and to-day Mrs. Eddy's following is not only immense, but is daily augmenting in numbers and enthusiasm. Orton had many fine and educated minds among his adherents, Mrs. Eddy has had the like among hers from the beginning. Her church is as well equipped in those particulars as is any other church. Claimants can always count upon a following, it doesn't matter who they are, nor what they claim, nor whether they come with documents or without. It was always so. Down out of the long-vanished past, across the abyss of the ages, if you listen you can still hear the believing multitudes shouting for Perkin Warbeck and Lambert Simnel.
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204Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Story of the Good Little Boy  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Black and white illustration of a boy in a lake, desperately clinging to a log to stay afloat; a man stands on a nearby pier, reaching out to him. A sailboat and gulls are visible in the background.
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205Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Seventieth Birthday Speech  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Image of the cover of a souvenir pamphlet from Mark Twain's 70th Birthday.
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206Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Siamese Twins  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Black-and-white illustration of the Siamese twins sitting on a park bench with a young woman; one twin is courting the woman, while the other appears to be asleep.
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207Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Story of a Speech  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: An address delivered in 1877, and a review of it twenty-nine years later. The original speech was delivered at a dinner given by the publishers of The Atlantic Monthly in honor of the seventieth anniversary of the birth of John Greenleaf Whittier, at the Hotel Brunswick, Boston, December 17, 1877.
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208Author:  Van Loon, HendrikRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Story of Mankind  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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209Author:  Washington, Booker T.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Negro Progress in Virginia  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE members of the colored race who live outside of Virginia are beginning to grow somewhat jealous of the progress which our race is making in this commonwealth. The Negro race in Virginia is going forward, in my opinion, in all the fundamental and substantial things of life, faster than the Negro himself realizes and faster than his white neighbor realizes. I say this notwithstanding there are many existing weaknesses and much still to be accomplished. This progress which Virginia Negroes are now experiencing is owing to two causes.
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210Author:  Washington, Booker T.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Teamwork  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: EVERY large and successful business, or other organization, has been built up by what is called "teamwork," not by one individual, but by a number of individuals working together. In what I shall attempt to say tonight, I want to emphasize the importance, in an institution like this, of people working together with a common end in view. That is teamwork.
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211Author:  Wiggin, Kate DouglasRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Birds' Christmas Carol  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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212Author:  Wiggin, Kate DouglasRequires cookie*
 Title:  Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE old stage coach was rumbling along the dusty road that runs from Maplewood to Riverboro. The day was as warm as midsummer, though it was only the middle of May, and Mr. Jeremiah Cobb was favoring the horses as much as possible, yet never losing sight of the fact that he carried the mail. The hills were many, and the reins lay loosely in his hands as he lolled back in his seat and extended one foot and leg luxuriously over the dashboard. His brimmed hat of worn felt was well pulled over his eyes, and he revolved a quid of tobacco in his left cheek.
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213Author:  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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214Author:  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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215Author:  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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216Author:  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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217Author:  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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218Author:  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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219Author:  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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220Author:  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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