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CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Autograph note, with signature ("Mark Twain") in the text, written in ink at bottom of a typed letter signed to him from J.W. Kelley, President of The Denver Press Club, Denver, 23 May 1907, 1 page, 4to, the letter severely faded but readable, the five-line Twain note fine; framed with portrait and a photograph of the Twain house in Hartford, 19½ x 23 in. (50 x 58 cm.) overall.A gushing request for a signed photograph of Clemens to hang in the Press Club; Twain responds: "Write on it: Mark Twain, Dean of the planet's journalism; joined the guild in 1849, aged 14, & has not broken the connection in 58 years."