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Mark Twain’s Cornell: Recalling Samuel Clemens’s Ithaca Friends Lance J. Heidig Cornell University Library August 6, 2009

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A paper presenation for the The Sixth International Conference on The State of Mark Twain Studies, August 6 - 8, 2009.

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Mark Twain’s Cornell:Recalling Samuel Clemens’s Ithaca Friends

Lance J. HeidigCornell University Library

August 6, 2009

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Panorama of campus, looking north from Sage College tower with Sage Chapel in the foreground.

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Cornell University – 1880

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Henry W. Sage“Mr. Clemens, you’ve got as clear a business head on your shoulders as I have come in contact with for years. What are you an author for? You ought to be a business man.” Autobiography, Vol. 2, p. 138.

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

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Dean Sage

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

“…through his friendship with Uncle Joe Twichell of Harford, Father had become intimate with that Hartford group of Charles Dudley Warner, Samuel Clemens, and others.”

from My Father Dean Sage

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Clemens letter to Mr. Krueger

“…for we do want you to go Cornell & hope you will. The Sages are there, temporarily, --till they go to heaven where they belong-- & there are other good & great folks there. ”

S.L.Clemens. July 22, 1883

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

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Mark Twain in Ithaca

Twins of Genius Tour with George W. Cable

December 3, 1884

Wilgus Opera House

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• Hiram Corson• Horatio S. White• Goldwin Smith• Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen• Bayard Taylor

Cornell Professors and Samuel Clemens

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“I have been reading another chapter or two in Ambassador White’s autobiography, and I find the book charming, particularly where he talks about me. I find any book charming that talks about me.”

-- Mark TwainAutobiography, Vol. 2, p. 341.

Andrew Dickson White

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Cornell President A. D. White on the Arts Quad, ca. 1910.

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Willard Fiske

“Thus I camped out among my books—the first time since the good old days of the Villa Forini. And sat down at my desk all the day….My only breaks were when I drove up for a call at the distant villa of the Clemenses, or when Mark occasionally came down for a talk and an afternoon’s smoke.”

--Fiske letter to Sue Warner, wife of Charles Dudley Warner, March 3, 1904

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Langdon Family at Cornell

• Jervis Langdon, Sr.• Ida Langdon• Jervis Langdon, Jr.• Jean Bancroft Langdon• Jervis Langdon III• Lee Kiesling• Fourth generation

Charles Jervis Langdon (seated) and Clemens (?) in Alexandria, Egypt, ca. 1867. He is wearing an Ottoman Turkish costume, that was later donated to Cornell by his sister, Ida Langdon, and Jervis Landon III.

Cornell Costume and Textile Collection, Cornell University

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Paige Compositor

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At Cornell’s Sibley Museum, College of Engineering, ca. 1898