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This selection of correspondence among Clemens and Rogers could be regarded as a continuation of Mark Twain's Letters to His Publishers, 1867-1894, edited by means of Hamlin Hill. It completes the tale all started there of Samuel Clemens's company affairs, specifically insofar as they situation dealings with publishers; and it files Clemens's growth from bankruptcy, with the Paige typesetter and Webster & corporation, to renewed prosperity lower than the regular, skillful hand of H. H. Rogers.

But Clemens’s correspondence with Rogers unearths greater than a company dating. It illuminates a friendship which Clemens got here to price chiefly others, and it indicates a profound switch in his styles of residing. He who throughout the Hartford years were a loyal relations guy, content material with a discrete circle of intimates, now grew to become back (as he were in the course of the Nevada and California years) a guy between wearing males, having fun with prizefights billiard fits in public, and—in private—long days of poker, gruff jest, and sturdy Scotch whisky aboard Rogers’s marvelous yacht.

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