Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2

Here is young Sam Clemens—in the world getting famous making love—in 155 magnificently edited letters that trace his remarkable self-transformation from a footloose irreverent West Coast journalist to a popular lecturer and author of The Jumping Frog soon to be a national and international celebrity. And on the move he was—from San Francisco to New York to St. Louis and then to Paris Naples Rome Athens Constantinople Yalta and the Holy Land; back to New York and on to Washington; back to San Francisco and Virginia City; and on to lecturing in Ohio Michigan Pennsylvania and New York. Resplendent with wit love of life ambition and literary craft this new volume in the wonderful Bancroft Library edition of Mark Twain's Letters will delight and inform both scholars and general readers.



This volume has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities the Mark Twain Foundation Jane Newhall and The Friends of The Bancroft Library.