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CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ("Mark Twain"). Cabinet photo inscribed and signed ("S.L. Clemens"), "At Sea," July 1896. One page, albumen print, 131 x 98mm. (5 3/16 x 3 7/8in.) plus wide-edged mount of white-finished card, very minor spotting, the card mount with embossed imprint of "The Falk Studios, 92 Elizabeth St. Melbourne and at Sydney." A fine, full-face view of Twain with tousled white hair, gazing directly at the camera. Inscribed in ink by Clemens at bottom of mount: "Very sincerely Yours, S.L. Clemens. To Ann[?] Goodenough, At Sea, July 1896."
A rare portrait of Clemens, this photograph was taken in Sydney or Melbourne, Australia in late September or early October 1895. In a letter of 3 October 1895 to H. Walter Barnett of the Falk Studio, Melbourne, Clemens wrote that the Falk portraits were "much the best ones I have ever had." The Mark Twain Papers, to whom we are grateful for details, possesses a slightly smaller print of this image, without the imprinted mount. This copy was inscribed by Clemens to the wife of Lieutenant Governor Sir William H. Goodenough (1833-1898), commander of British troops in South Africa from 1894-1898 (See his letter in lot ).
A rare portrait of Clemens, this photograph was taken in Sydney or Melbourne, Australia in late September or early October 1895. In a letter of 3 October 1895 to H. Walter Barnett of the Falk Studio, Melbourne, Clemens wrote that the Falk portraits were "much the best ones I have ever had." The Mark Twain Papers, to whom we are grateful for details, possesses a slightly smaller print of this image, without the imprinted mount. This copy was inscribed by Clemens to the wife of Lieutenant Governor Sir William H. Goodenough (1833-1898), commander of British troops in South Africa from 1894-1898 (See his letter in lot ).