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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Letters Of Mark Twain, Volume 1, 1853-1866, by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Letters Of Mark Twain, Volume 1, 1853-1866 Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) Last Updated: February 17, 2009 Release Date: August 21, 2006 [EBook #3193] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TWAIN LETTERS, VOL. 1 *** Produced by David Widger MARK TWAIN'S LETTERS--1853-1866 ARRANGED WITH COMMENT BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE VOLUME I By Mark Twain FOREWORD Nowhere is the human being more truly revealed than in his letters. Not in literary letters--prepared with care, and the thought of possible publication--but in those letters wrought out of the press of circumstances, and with no idea of print in mind. A collection of such documents, written by one whose life has become of interest to mankind at large, has a value quite aside from literature, in that it reflects in some degree at least the soul of the writer. The letters of Mark Twain are peculiarly of the revealing sort. He was a man of few restraints and of no affectations. In his correspondence, as in his talk, he spoke what was in his mind, untrammeled by literary conventions. Necessarily such a collection does not constitute a detailed life story, but is supplementary to it. An extended biography of Mark Twain has already been published. His letters are here gathered for those who wish to pursue the subject somewhat more exhaustively from the strictly personal side. Selections from this correspondence were used in the biography mentioned. Most of these are here reprinted in the belief that an owner of the "Letters" will wish the collection to be reasonably complete. [Etext Editor's Note: A. B. Paine considers this compendium a supplement to his "Mark Twain, A Biography", I have arranged the volumes of the "Letters" to correspond as closely as possible with the dates of the Project Gutenberg six volumes of the "Biography". D.W.] MARK TWAIN--A BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS, for nearly half a century known and celebrated as "Mark Twain,"
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