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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
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
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
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
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
Mark Twain in Ithaca
Twins of Genius Tour with George W. Cable
December 3, 1884
Wilgus Opera House
• Hiram Corson• Horatio S. White• Goldwin Smith• Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen• Bayard Taylor
Cornell Professors and Samuel Clemens
“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
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Cornell President A. D. White on the Arts Quad, ca. 1910.
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
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
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
Paige Compositor
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
At Cornell’s Sibley Museum, College of Engineering, ca. 1898