By Mark Twain, Lewis Leary

This choice of correspondence among Clemens and Rogers will be considered a continuation of Mark Twain's Letters to His Publishers, 1867-1894, edited by way of Hamlin Hill. It completes the tale began there of Samuel Clemens's enterprise affairs, specifically insofar as they predicament dealings with publishers; and it files Clemens's development from financial ruin, with the Paige typesetter and Webster & corporation, to renewed prosperity below the regular, skillful hand of H. H. Rogers. 
 
But Clemens’s correspondence with Rogers finds greater than a enterprise courting. It illuminates a friendship which Clemens got here to price specifically others, and it indicates a profound switch in his styles of residing. He who throughout the Hartford years have been a faithful relatives guy, content material with a discrete circle of intimates, now grew to become back (as he were through the Nevada and California years) a guy between wearing males, having fun with prizefights billiard fits in public, and—in private—long days of poker, gruff jest, and sturdy Scotch whisky aboard Rogers’s wonderful yacht.

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Clemens owned was exchanged, ten shares for one, for that of a Regius Manufacturing Company, hastily organized, with Rogers's future son-in-law, Urban H. Broughton, as its president. In December 1895 some of the assets of that company were sold, and a dividend of $14 a share was distributed to stockholders (Regius Manufacturing Company to Orion Clemens, 10 December 1895). This may have been the time when the machine was taken over by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company (John S. Thompson, History of Composing Machines [Chicago, 1904], pp.

Rogers had given the Library to Fairhaven as a memorial to his daughter, who died at the age of seventeen. Although not mentioned in the correspondence, the letter does rovide early evidence of his appreciation for Rogers's generosity in involving imself in Clemens's tangled business affairs: "I have allowed myself the privilege of sending two or three of my books to the Library. " In the next few months Clemens sent the library several inscribed copies of his books, including Huckleberry Finn and The Prince and.

741,700 Number of Shares contingent upon money advanced. 500 Shares issued March 9th. 150,000. To be held on order of Mr. Clemens or Mr. Rogers. 750 Shares issued to Mr. H. H. Rogers, March 9th. 1,000 500 300 100,000. 50,000. 30,000. 750 75,000. 250 75 50 200 20 355 25,000. 7,500. 5,000. 20,000. 2,000. 35,500. 32,417 17,583 3,241,700. 1,758,300. 50,000 5,000,000. Not to be issued at present. Not to be issued at present. Issued March 6th. Contingent upon Mr. Rogers' advances. 69 out of the proposed $150,000 advance, so he never received all of his 7,417 shares (Urban H.

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