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Clemens, Samuel Langhorne. Is Shakespeare dead? From my autobiography

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Creator
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910
Date
1909
Location
No place, unknown, or undetermined
Media format
Manuscript text
Extent
124 leaves

Language
English
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Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 226850
Folger call number: S.a.107
Folger holdings ID: 258415
Accession Number: cs1120
Summary
Mark Twain's exposition of the Baconian authorship of Shakespeare's Works. Mark Twain's title in the ms. is "The Bacon-Shakspeare Feud Again From my Autobiography." At the beginning of the text are the words "Dictated Feb. 13, 1909." This note is deleted but marked "STET." Nevertheless, the whole text and the above note are in Clemens' autograph, as are numerous alterations
Notes
General notes

Also available as a digital reproduction The work was published with the title Is Shakespeare dead? ... (Harper & Brothers, New York, 1909). This ms. could not have been the copy for this publication, for the ms contains words, phrases, and longer passages which do not appear in the printed book, and vice versa. Added to the ms. are a typewritten title-page and a typewritten account of the writing of the ms. and its subsequent history, dated 1911 and signed by C. G. Lark [Charles Tressler Lark] who acted as agent for Ossip Gabrilowitsch and the lawyer for the Clemens estate

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2016. America's Shakespeare. tp Los Angeles,CA. Los Angeles public library.2016.America's Shakespeare

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Extended title: Is Shakespeare dead? From my autobiography 1909
Subjects
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
Related names
author: Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
subject: Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
signer: Lark, Charles Tressler, 1876-1946

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