Mark Twain's Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909 (Mark Twain Papers)

"This collection of correspondence between Clemens and Rogers may be thought of as a continuation of Mark Twain's Letters to His Publishers, 1867-1894, edited by Hamlin Hill. It completes the story begun there of Samuel Clemens's business affairs, especially insofar as they concern dealings with publishers; and it documents Clemens's progress from financial disaster, with the Paige typesetter and Webster & Company, to renewed prosperity under the steady, skillful hand of H. H. Rogers. But Clemens's correspondence with Rogers reveals more than a business relationship. It illuminates a friendship which Clemens came to value above all others, and it suggests a profound change in his patterns of living. He who during the Hartford years had been a devoted family man, content with a discrete circle of intimates, now became again (as he had been during the Nevada and California years) a man among sporting men, enjoying prizefights and professional billiard matches in public, and - in private - long days of poker, gruff jest, and good Scotch whisky aboard Rogers's magnificent yacht" --Publisher's website This collection of correspondence between Clemens and Rogers may be thought of as a continuation of Mark Twain's Letters to His Publishers, 1867-1894, edited by Hamlin Hill. It completes the story begun there of Samuel Clemens's business affairs, especially insofar as they concern dealings with publishers; and it documents Clemens's progress from financial disaster, with the Paige typesetter and Webster & Company, to renewed prosperity under the steady, skillful hand of H. H. Rogers.  But Clemens’s correspondence with Rogers reveals more than a business relationship. It illuminates a friendship which Clemens came to value above all others, and it suggests a profound change in his patterns of living. He who during the Hartford years had been a devoted family man, content with a discrete circle of intimates, now became again (as he had been during the Nevada and California years) a man among sporting men, enjoying prizefights and professional billiard matches in public, and—in private—long days of poker, gruff jest, and good Scotch whisky aboard Rogers’s magnificent yacht. Content: Abbreviations Introduction I. "Fussing with Business" (December 1893-February 1895) II. "As Long as the Promise Must Be Made" (March 1895-August 1896) III. "Our Unspeakable Disaster" (August 1896-July 1897) IV. "You and I Are a Team" (July 1897-May 1899) V. "This Everlasting Exile" (June 1899-August 1900) VI. "This Odious Swindle" (October 1900-June 1904) VII. "Nothing Agrees with Me" (July 1904-March 1908) VIII. "I Wish Henry Rogers Would Come Here" (June 1908-May 1909) Afterword Appendixes A Calendar of Letters Biographical Directory Genealogical Charts Index