To
Joseph H. Twichell
25 December 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile of inscription in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer :
CU-MARK, UCCL 11343)
(SUPERSEDED)
25 December 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile of inscription in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer :
CU-MARK, UCCL 11343)
(SUPERSEDED)
To Joseph H. Twichell
from his true friend
Explanatory Notes
1
The American edition of Tom Sawyer had finally been published on 8 December. In this copy Twichell’s son Edward later noted the circumstances of Clemens’s gift: “Mark Twain presented this book to my father on Christmas Eve 1876 at a carolling party at our Hartford house. Mark often said that writing Tom Sawyer was fathers idea but that he was determined not to corrupt us by sharing the proceeds.”
MicroPUL, reel 1.
Apparently owned by Mark Hime of Biblioctopus in 1986.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.