[Photographs, posters, and poems associated with Mark Twain
Subtitle: selected illustrations, broadsides, and autograph material from the Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection].
Contributors: Duneka, Frederick A., d. 1919.; Lyon, Isabel, 1863-1958.; Reed, T.B.; Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.; Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907.; Russell & Son (Photographers).; Lotos Club (New York, N.Y.).; A.S. Seer's Commercial Printing House.; Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1882
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Miscellanea.; Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography -- Sources.
Other titles: Mark Twain will lecture at Steinway Hall ...; Sketches of the sixties.
Notes: Three photographs of Mark Twain of which one is by Russell & Sons, London, "photographers by appointment to H.M. The queen", matted with signed letter to Mr. Duneka; another is signed by Twain to Miss Isabel J. Lyon, Jan. 24, 1908; the third is of Mark Twain and his boyhood home in Hannibal, Mo.  Also included are holograph manuscript, "A sentiment (for Thanksgiving Day)" by Mark Twain; an illustrated broadside: Dinner to Saumel Langhorne Clemens by the Lotos Club, New York, November 10th, 1900, signed by T.B. Reed, Mark Twain,  W.D. Howells, J.B. Aldrich ... et. al.; a holograph signed poem, "Love's calendar" by Thomas Bailey Aldrich; a broadside advertisement: "Mark Twain" will lecture at Steinway Hall, Wednesday evening, Feb. 5th, subject: "The Sandwich Islands" ... A.S. Seer's Commercial Printing House, 10 West Fourth St., N.Y.; duplicate dust jackets for Sketches of the sixties by Bret Harte and Mark Twain, 1882.
Source: Gift of Frances R. Friedman, June 15, 1992.