Title: Joseph Hopkins Twichell : the life and times of Mark Twain's closest friend /
Authors: Courtney, Steve, 1948-
Publisher: University of Georgia Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Twichell, Joseph Hopkins,; Twain, Mark, Friends and associates.; Congregationalists Clergy Biography.
Contents: Preface: A man on the cusp of the modern -- Acknowledgments -- The crocodiles -- Eternity in the wind -- The soul streaming into the eyes and ears -- The old brick row -- The tall student -- City of dreams and shadows -- The sword of the Lord and Gideon -- A matter of feud -- Which is the dream? -- The heaped-up grave -- An arrow through me -- The wild humorist of the Pacific Slope -- Keene Flats -- The work to my very door -- Peru -- Problems of belief -- Sickles's counterrevolution -- Tramping -- Runaway horses -- He made me feel ridiculous -- Harmony and family -- The coming man and the uses of history -- The doctrine of total depravity -- Unsent letters.