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Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 4
"You ought to see Livy & me, now-a-days—you never saw such a serenely satisfied couple of doves in all your life. I spent Jan 1, 2, 3 & 5 there, & left at 8 last night. With my vile temper & variable moods, it seems an incomprehensible miracle that we two have been right together in the same house half the time for a year & a half, & yet have never had a cross word, or a lover's 'tiff,' or a pouting spell, or a misunderstanding, or the faintest shadow of a jealous suspicion. Now isn't that absolutely wonderful? Could I have had such an experience with any other girl on earth? I am perfectly certain I could not. . . . We are to be married on Feb. 2d."

So begins Volume 4 of the letters, with Samuel Clemens anticipating his wedding to Olivia L. Langdon. The 338 letters in this volume document the first two years of a loving marriage that would last more than thirty years. They recount, in Clemens's own inimitable voice, a tumultuous time: a growing international fame, the birth of a sickly first child, and the near-fatal illness of his wife.

At the beginning of 1870, fresh from the success of The Innocents Abroad, Clemens is on "the long agony" of a lecture tour and planning to settle in Buffalo as editor of the Express. By the end of 1871, he has moved to Hartford and is again on tour, anticipating the publication of Roughing It and the birth of his second child. The intervening letters show Clemens bursting with literary ideas, business schemes, and inventions, and they show him erupting with frustration, anger, and grief, but more often with dazzling humor and surprising self-revelation. In addition to Roughing It, Clemens wrote some enduringly popular short pieces during this period, but he saved some of his best writing for private letters, many of which are published here for the first time.

"You ought to see Livy & me, now-a-days—you never saw such a serenely satisfied couple of doves in all your life. I spent Jan 1, 2, 3 & 5 there, & left at 8 last night. With my vile temper & variable moods, it seems an incomprehensible miracle that we
Pudd'nhead Wilson

Pudd'nhead Wilson

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

Mark Twain's Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

Mark Twain

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Pudd'nhead Wilson

Pudd'nhead Wilson

Mark Twain

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Mark Twains Travel Letters from 1891-92 (Unabridged)

Mark Twains Travel Letters from 1891-92 (Unabridged)

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part Seven  (Unabridged)

Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part Seven (Unabridged)

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part Six  (Unabridged)

Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part Six (Unabridged)

Mark Twain

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Tom Sawyer's Luck: Tom & Huck

Tom Sawyer's Luck: Tom & Huck

Lee Fanning, Wilson Toney

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Tom Sawyer's Luck: Tom &  Huck

Tom Sawyer's Luck: Tom & Huck

Lee Fanning, Wilson Toney

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Mark Twain's Autobiography (Unabridged)

Mark Twain's Autobiography (Unabridged)

Mark Twain

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Mark Twains Letters from Hawaii (Unabridged)

Mark Twains Letters from Hawaii (Unabridged)

Mark Twain

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Life In California, Excerpted From Roughing It By Mark Twain (Unabridged)

Life In California, Excerpted From Roughing It By Mark Twain (Unabridged)

Mark Twain

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Annotated)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Annotated)

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 6

Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 6

Mark Twain

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What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 1

Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 1

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Notebooks and Journals, Volume II

Mark Twain's Notebooks and Journals, Volume II

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Fables of Man

Mark Twain's Fables of Man

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2

Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Hannibal, Huck, and Tom

Mark Twain's Hannibal, Huck, and Tom

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Notebooks and Journals, Volume III

Mark Twain's Notebooks and Journals, Volume III

Mark Twain

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Annotated)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Annotated)

Mark Twain

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 125th Anniversary Edition

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 125th Anniversary Edition

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2

Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2

Mark Twain

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The Devil's Race-Track

The Devil's Race-Track

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Hannibal, Huck, and Tom

Mark Twain's Hannibal, Huck, and Tom

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Satires and Burlesques

Mark Twain's Satires and Burlesques

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Notebooks and Journals, Volume III

Mark Twain's Notebooks and Journals, Volume III

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 6

Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 6

Mark Twain

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 125th Anniversary Edition

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 125th Anniversary Edition

Mark Twain

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What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Fables of Man

Mark Twain's Fables of Man

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Notebooks and Journals, Volume II

Mark Twain's Notebooks and Journals, Volume II

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 4

Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 4

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 1

Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 1

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Letters - Complete

Mark Twain's Letters - Complete

Mark Twain

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King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule

King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule

Mark Twain

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To the Person Sitting in Darkness

To the Person Sitting in Darkness

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Letters - Volume 2

Mark Twain's Letters - Volume 2

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Letters - Volume 1

Mark Twain's Letters - Volume 1

Mark Twain

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Illustrated)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Illustrated)

Mark Twain

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Illustrated)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Illustrated)

Mark Twain

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The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories

The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories

Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, L. Frank Baum, Algernon Blackwood, Brothers Grimm, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry, Saki, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Personal Recollections Of Joan Of Arc Vol.1

Personal Recollections Of Joan Of Arc Vol.1

Mark Twain

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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade)

Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade)

Mark Twain

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1601

1601

Mark Twain

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What Is Man? And Other Stories

What Is Man? And Other Stories

Mark Twain

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Tom Sawyer, Detective

Tom Sawyer, Detective

Mark Twain

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A Double Barrelled Detective Story

A Double Barrelled Detective Story

Mark Twain

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1601

1601

Mark Twain

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The Prince and the Pauper

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

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The Innocents Abroad

The Innocents Abroad

Mark Twain

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The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories

The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories

Mark Twain

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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Mark Twain

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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Humorous Tales (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Humorous Tales (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

Mark Twain

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The adventure of Tom Sawyer

The adventure of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

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The prince and the Pauper

The prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Hawaii

Mark Twain's Hawaii

Mark Twain

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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's Speeches

Mark Twain's Speeches

Mark Twain

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Chapters from My Autobiography

Chapters from My Autobiography

Mark Twain

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The Mysterious Stranger (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

The Mysterious Stranger (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

Mark Twain

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The Mysterious Stranger (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

The Mysterious Stranger (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

Mark Twain

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The Diaries of Adam & Eve (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

The Diaries of Adam & Eve (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

Mark Twain

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

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The Complete Works of Mark Twain

The Complete Works of Mark Twain

Mark Twain

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The Prince and the Pauper

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

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Life on the Mississippi

Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain, Dan Gibson

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

Mark Twain

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Autobiography of Mark Twain

Autobiography of Mark Twain

Mark Twain

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Mark Twain

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Autobiography of Mark Twain

Autobiography of Mark Twain

Mark Twain

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The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

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The Innocents Abroad

The Innocents Abroad

Mark Twain

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Annotated Keynote Classics)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Annotated Keynote Classics)

Mark Twain, Michelle M. White

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Moments with Mark Twain

Moments with Mark Twain

Mark Twain

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Moments with Mark Twain

Moments with Mark Twain

Mark Twain

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Mark Twain

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

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The Prince and the Pauper

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

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The Prince and the Pauper

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

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Collected Nonfiction

Collected Nonfiction

Mark Twain

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The Novels of Mark Twain Volume Two

The Novels of Mark Twain Volume Two

Mark Twain

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain Collection - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain Collection - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

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A Tramp Abroad

A Tramp Abroad

Mark Twain

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Moments with Mark Twain

Moments with Mark Twain

Mark Twain

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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

Mark Twain

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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

Mark Twain

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