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CHAPTER CXIV: THE WHITTIER BIRTHDAY SPEECH.
- Source :
- Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete; 3/1/2006, p288-292, 5p
- Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- Chapter 114 of the book "Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete" by Albert Bigelow Paine is presented. This chapter outlines one of the visits which Howells and Clemens made to Hartford. It highlights some unusual happenings took place that summer of 1877. It was the night of December 17, 1877, that Mark Twain made his unfortunate speech at the dinner given by the Atlantic staff to John G. Whittier on his seventieth birthday.
- Subjects :
- AUTHORS
SOCIAL groups
COMMUNITY life
FAMILY relations
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Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete
- Publication Type :
- Book
- Accession number :
- 34334030