Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1835-11-30 - 1910-04-21
Biography
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), American author, entrepeneur, and lecturer
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Marjorie Bowen papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 454
Abstract:
The Marjorie Bowen Papers consist of the literary and personal papers of the British writer Gabrielle Margaret Vere Campbell, who published hundreds of works of fiction, historical fiction, and history, as well as reviews and opinion pieces, in the first half of the twentieth century. The collection primarily contains manuscripts, typescripts, and printed versions of her writings, with photographs, press cuttings, and some correspondence files that include letters from authors Samuel Clemens...
Dates:
1810-1998, bulk 1900-1951
Samuel Langhorne Clemens Collection
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 852
Scope and Contents:
The Samuel Langhorne Clemens Collection provides insight into the life and career of Clemens, American author and lecturer best known by his pseudonym Mark Twain. The collection is comprised of correspondence, writings, contracts, scrapbooks, clippings, and printed material. The collection contains drafts, research notes, printed versions, and contracts, which document Clemens' creative process and writing career. Autograph manuscripts can be found in the collection for ...
Dates:
1860-1980
Paul Leicester Ford papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 488
Abstract:
The collection consists of correspondence, writings, and personal papers of the American historian and author Paul Leicester Ford. The correspondence is largely professional and documents Ford's work as an editor, historian, bibliographer, novelist and playwright. Ford's correspondents include John Kendrick Bangs, Samuel L. Clemens, Edward Everett Hale, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Rudyard Kipling, and S. Weir Mitchell; earlier letters written to others by James Fennimore Cooper and Jared...
Dates:
1736-1902, bulk 1885-1902
Norman Holmes Pearson Collection of “Art for the Wrong Reason”
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1031
Scope and Contents:
The collection contains sixty-three sketches, drawings, paintings, and prints acquired by Yale faculty member Norman Holmes Pearson not for their aesthetic or artistic merit, but because they were created by poets and other authors; he titled his collection “Art for the Wrong Reason.” The works were executed in crayon, gouache, graphite, ink, charcoal, oil, and watercolor on paper, board, canvas, and panel, by fifty-three writers including E. E. Cummings, George Du Maurier, Victor Hugo, D....
Dates:
1833-1979
Betsy Beinecke Shirley collection of American children's literature
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 764
Abstract:
Collection consists of manuscripts (correspondence and drafts of writings), illustration material (drawings in all media, photographs, book dummies, and printing blocks and plates), and publication proofs by various authors and artists including Louisa May Alcott, Alexander Anderson, Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel, Gelett Burgess, Harrison Cady, Palmer Cox, F. O. C. Darley, W. W. Denslow, Jo Mora, Peter Newell, and Symeon Shimin, as well as work produced for the McLoughlin Brothers...
Dates:
1640-2001