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CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. A printed questionnaire sent to Clemens in 1889 by Bradford Merrill, Managing Editor of The Philadelphia Press, and filled out and signed ("Mark Twain") by the author. One page, 8vo, slight fold creases, two tiny marginal tears, laid in protective cloth covers, in a brown half morocco slipcase; in good condition.
MARK TWAIN EXPLAINS HIS SUCCESS
The questionnaire was apparently sent to four leading members of each of a number of fields of endeavor. It reads: "Dear Sir: It is the sense of a majority of the distinguished men of your profession, secured in writing by The Press, that you are to be esteemed as one of the four leading Authors [this word handwritten] in the United States. Press readers will be much interested to have you write out below, as fully or briefly as you please, what (1) circumstances, or (2) personal quality, or gift has chiefly contributed to your success in Life..." In response to the first question Twain has written (with three revisions): "I have published infrequently, & have burnt more manuscripts than I have printed." To the second question he has written: "Good Humor." Signed "Mark Twain" at end with a squiggly arrow drawn by him in the margin pointing upwards to his answers.
MARK TWAIN EXPLAINS HIS SUCCESS
The questionnaire was apparently sent to four leading members of each of a number of fields of endeavor. It reads: "Dear Sir: It is the sense of a majority of the distinguished men of your profession, secured in writing by The Press, that you are to be esteemed as one of the four leading Authors [this word handwritten] in the United States. Press readers will be much interested to have you write out below, as fully or briefly as you please, what (1) circumstances, or (2) personal quality, or gift has chiefly contributed to your success in Life..." In response to the first question Twain has written (with three revisions): "I have published infrequently, & have burnt more manuscripts than I have printed." To the second question he has written: "Good Humor." Signed "Mark Twain" at end with a squiggly arrow drawn by him in the margin pointing upwards to his answers.