Author: Wisconsin. Adjutant General's Office
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Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 938
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Author: Wisconsin. Adjutant General's Office
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Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 938
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Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 938
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The City Record
Author: New York (N.Y.)
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Category : New York (N.Y
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
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Category : New York (N.Y
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
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Mark Twain's Aquarium
Author: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820334987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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"What I lacked and what I needed," confessed Samuel Clemens in 1908, "was grandchildren." Near the end of his life, Clemens became the doting friend and correspondent of twelve schoolgirls ranging in age from ten to sixteen. For Clemens, "collecting" these surrogate granddaughters was a way of overcoming his loneliness, a respite from the pessimism, illness, and depression that dominated his later years. In Mark Twain's Aquarium, John Cooley brings together virtually every known communication exchanged between the writer and the girls he called his "angelfish." Cooley also includes a number of Clemens's notebook entries, autobiographical dictations, short manuscripts, and other relevant materials that further illuminate this fascinating story. Clemens relished the attention of these girls, orchestrating chaperoned visits to his homes and creating an elaborate set of rules and emblems for the Aquarium Club. He hung their portraits in his billiard room and invented games and plays for their amusement. For much of 1908, he was sending and receiving a letter a week from his angelfish. Cooley argues that Clemens saw cheerfulness and laughter as his only defenses against the despair of his late years. His enchantment with children, years before, had given birth to such characters as Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huck Finn. In the frivolities of the Aquarium Club, it found its final expression. Cooley finds no evidence of impropriety in Clemens behavior with the girls. Perhaps his greatest crime, the editor suggests, was in idealizing them, in regarding them as precious collectibles. "He tried to trap them in the amber of endless adolescence," Cooley writes. "By pleading that they stay young and innocent, he was perhaps attempting to deny that, as they and the world continued to change, so must he."
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820334987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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"What I lacked and what I needed," confessed Samuel Clemens in 1908, "was grandchildren." Near the end of his life, Clemens became the doting friend and correspondent of twelve schoolgirls ranging in age from ten to sixteen. For Clemens, "collecting" these surrogate granddaughters was a way of overcoming his loneliness, a respite from the pessimism, illness, and depression that dominated his later years. In Mark Twain's Aquarium, John Cooley brings together virtually every known communication exchanged between the writer and the girls he called his "angelfish." Cooley also includes a number of Clemens's notebook entries, autobiographical dictations, short manuscripts, and other relevant materials that further illuminate this fascinating story. Clemens relished the attention of these girls, orchestrating chaperoned visits to his homes and creating an elaborate set of rules and emblems for the Aquarium Club. He hung their portraits in his billiard room and invented games and plays for their amusement. For much of 1908, he was sending and receiving a letter a week from his angelfish. Cooley argues that Clemens saw cheerfulness and laughter as his only defenses against the despair of his late years. His enchantment with children, years before, had given birth to such characters as Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huck Finn. In the frivolities of the Aquarium Club, it found its final expression. Cooley finds no evidence of impropriety in Clemens behavior with the girls. Perhaps his greatest crime, the editor suggests, was in idealizing them, in regarding them as precious collectibles. "He tried to trap them in the amber of endless adolescence," Cooley writes. "By pleading that they stay young and innocent, he was perhaps attempting to deny that, as they and the world continued to change, so must he."
Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate, and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania
Author: Pennsylvania
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Category : Legislative journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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Category : Legislative journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2868
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2868
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The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces
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Languages : en
Pages : 970
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Languages : en
Pages : 970
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Who's who in America
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1754
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1754
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The Westminster
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Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 1678
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Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 1678
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Olympians of the Sawdust Circle
Author: William L. Slout
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0809513102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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The culmination of more than thirty years of research, Olympians of the Sawdust Circle is an attempt to identify every major and minor player in the American circus world of the nineteenth century. This A-Z guide lists: surname, given name, dates of birth and death (if known), type of entertainment (and function) with which the individual was associated, and the companies and dates by whom the person was employed. Every researcher and library interested in American circus history will need this seminal guide. An absolutely astonishing piece of scholarship.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0809513102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The culmination of more than thirty years of research, Olympians of the Sawdust Circle is an attempt to identify every major and minor player in the American circus world of the nineteenth century. This A-Z guide lists: surname, given name, dates of birth and death (if known), type of entertainment (and function) with which the individual was associated, and the companies and dates by whom the person was employed. Every researcher and library interested in American circus history will need this seminal guide. An absolutely astonishing piece of scholarship.
Street Railway Section of the Commercial & Financial Chronicle
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Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Category : Street-railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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