Letters from the Earth
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Letters from the Earth is a posthumously published work of American author Mark Twain edited by Bernard DeVoto. It comprises essays written during a difficult time in Twain's life, when he was deeply
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Clara Clemens
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Clara Langhorne Clemens Samossoud, was an American concert singer, and the daughter of Samuel Clemens, who wrote as Mark Twain. She managed his estate and guarded his legacy after his death as his onl
Letters from the Earth
…concerns morality and religion and strikes a tone that is sarcastic—Twain's own term throughout the book. Initially, Twain's sole surviving child, Clara Clemens, objected to its publication in March 1939, probably because of its controversial and iconoclastic views on religion, claiming it presented a "distorted…
Clemens c. 1907
Twain playing the piano, with his daughter Clara and her friend behind him
Photograph taken by Frank J. Sprague at the wedding of Clemens and Ossip Gabrilowitsch. From left: Mark Twain, Jervis Langdon Jr., Clara Clemens , Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Jean Clemens, Joseph Twichell.
Clara Clemens with her husband Ossip Gabrilowitsch