Photographs from Volume 3 | The Writings of Mark Twain (beta)

The house at 21 Fifth Avenue, where Clemens and his daughters lived from 1904 to 1908. Culver Pictures.

Clemens being interviewed aboard the SS Minneapolis upon his arrival in England, 18 June 1907. Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford.

Ralph Ashcroft, Mr. and Mrs. John Henniker Heaton, and Clemens on their way to the royal garden party at Windsor Castle, 22 June 1907. Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford.

The royal garden party at Windsor Castle; Queen Alexandra is in the foreground, King Edward in the center facing Clemens. From a drawing by W. Hatherell of the London Graphic, reprinted in Harper’s Weekly, 27 July 1907.

The procession from All Souls College at Oxford to the Sheldonian Theatre, where the honorary doctorates were awarded, 26 June 1907. Clemens is sixth in line, behind Sidney Colvin, with Sidney Lee at his side and Rudyard Kipling behind him.

Clemens with Sir William Ramsay near the Sheldonian Theatre, smoking despite the risk of being “fined a guinea, and perhaps hanged later,” 26 June 1907.

Clemens watching the Oxford Pageant, Christ Church Meadow, 27 or 28 June 1907. Photograph by Gillman and Co. of St. Aldates, Oxford. Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago.

Clemens with Frances Nunnally at the studio of Henry Walter Barnett, London, 1907.

House of Commons, 2 July 1907. Left to right: John Samuel Phene, Edmund Gosse, Montague Horatio Mostyn Turtle Pigott, Arthur Fraser Walter, John Henniker Heaton, Clemens, Hugh McCalmont, Sydney Charles Buxton, unidentified, and Thomas Power O’Connor. Photograph by Sir Benjamin Stone. National Portrait Gallery, London.

House of Commons, 9 July 1907. Seated: former prime minister Arthur Balfour, Japanese Ambassador Komura Jutaro, and Clemens, guests of honor at a luncheon given by Sir Benjamin Stone, who also photographed the gathering.

James N. Gillis. Photograph from the Sonora (Calif.) Banner and Sonora News, unknown date.

Stephen Gillis at Jackass Hill, March 1907. Photograph by Albert Bigelow Paine.

Joseph T. Goodman at the former site of the Gillis cabin, Jackass Hill, March 1907. Photograph by Albert Bigelow Paine.

Irene Gerken, Clemens, Henry H. Rogers, Elizabeth Wallace, and William E. Benjamin, Hamilton, Bermuda, 1908. Photograph by Isabel Lyon.

Clemens and Rogers at the Princess Hotel, Hamilton, Bermuda, 1908. Photograph by Isabel Lyon.

Reginald and Maude, the donkey, with Clemens and Margaret Blackmer, Hamilton, Bermuda, 1908. Photograph by Elizabeth Wallace.

Dorothy Quick dressed as an Indian princess during her visit to Tuxedo Park, New York, 1907. Photograph by Isabel Lyon.

Mary (Paddy) Madden and Clemens on the RMS Bermudian, March 1907. Photograph by Isabel Lyon.

Clemens and Helen Allen swimming near her home in Bermuda, 1908. Photograph by Isabel Lyon.

The notice “illuminated” by Dorothy Sturgis from Clemens’s “rude original,” as he recorded in the Stormfield guestbook, 18 September 1908.

Henry S. Williams, one of the Stormfield burglars and author of In the Clutch of Circumstance. Photograph from the Brooklyn Eagle, 8 March 1925.

Clemens speaks to the builders of Stormfield, 27 June 1908. Photograph by Isabel Lyon.

Clemens playing cards with Dorothy Harvey, Louise Paine, and Joy Paine, “first week at Stormfield,” late June 1908. Photograph (and dating note) by Albert Bigelow Paine.

Clara and Samuel Clemens, Stormfield, 1908. Photograph by Isabel Lyon.

Clemens and Laura Hawkins Frazer, Stormfield, October 1908. Library of Congress.

Franklin and Harriet Whitmore with Clemens, Stormfield, 1908. Photograph by Isabel Lyon.

Helen Keller, Anne (Sullivan) Macy, and John Macy with Clemens, Stormfield, January 1909. Photograph by Isabel Lyon.

Clemens with Isabel Lyon and Ralph Ashcroft, Stormfield, 1908.

The “Lobster Pot” or “Summerfield,” the house deeded to Isabel Lyon and later returned to Clemens, before renovations. Photograph by Isabel Lyon.

The “Lobster Pot” or “Summerfield,” the house deeded to Isabel Lyon and later returned to Clemens, after renovations. Photograph by Isabel Lyon.

Stormfield as it appeared on 5 January 1909. Photograph taken for Paul Thompson, who published it in Burr McIntosh Monthly, March 1909.

Archibald Henderson, Ralph Ashcroft, Isabel Lyon, and Clemens in the library at Stormfield, December 1908. Photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford.

Portrait of Clemens painted by Francis D. Millet in 1877. Hannibal (Mo.) Free Public Library.

Francis D. Millet in 1875. Photograph by Antonio Perini, Venice. Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries.

Portrait of Samuel Moffett clipped by Clemens from the 15 August 1908 issue of Collier’s Weekly.

Nellie and Pieter Bausch’s carte-de-visite sent to Clemens on 27 February 1909, inscribed on the back “to Mark Twain, the splendid man and famous humorist.” Photograph by M. H. Laddé, Amsterdam.

The wedding of Ossip Gabrilowitsch and Clara Clemens, 6 October 1909, at Stormfield. Left to right: Samuel Clemens, Jervis Langdon, Jr., Jean Clemens, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch, and the Rev. Joseph Twichell. Photograph by Frank J. Sprague.

Jean Clemens, ca. 1908. Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford.

Ossip and Clara, Stormfield, 1910. Photograph by Albert Bigelow Paine.

Clemens disembarking from the SS Oceana in New York harbor upon his return from Bermuda. Paine wrote on the verso of his copy: “Last photograph made of M.T. Brought home from Bermuda by A.B.P. April 14, 1910. He died one week later, April 21 6 pm .” Photograph by National News Association.