Mark Twain’s Letters: Volume 1 1853–1866
✍ Scribed by Edgar Marquess Branch (editor); Michael B. Franck (editor); Kenneth M. Sanderson (editor); Harriet Elinor Smith (editor); Lin Salamo (editor); Richard Bucci (editor)
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 666
- Edition
- Reprint 2020
- Category
- Library
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<p>Don't scold me, Livy—let me pay my due homage to your worth; let me honor you above all women; let me love you with a love that knows no doubt, no question—for you are my world, my life, my pride, my all of earth that is worth the having. These are the words of Samuel Clemens in love. Playful and
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