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TWAIN, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens, 1835-1910). Three autograph letters signed ('S.L. Clemens') to W.T. Roberts, Hamilton, Bermuda, 15 and 19 January 1910 and n.d., three pages, 8vo, one on hotel paper, two on Clemens's 'Stormfield, Redding, Connecticut' paper, two with original envelopes; and Twain's visiting card, annotated in autograph on verso.
Twain writes to the local bandmaster in Hamilton, Bermuda, only three months before his death: 'You were so kind as to say you would play a selection for me, & this note is to beg you to play the Intermezzo of Cavalleria [Rusticana] Sunday morning if I am not trespassing too much on your kindness'; subsequent letters accompany the gift of a photograph (not present) and acknowledge a photograph of the band, 'the men whose inspiring music has given me such great & frequent pleasure in the past two years'. The visiting card is annotated with names of tunes, 'Intermezzo, Gold & Silver, Rosary, Weymouth Chimes ...'.
Twain writes to the local bandmaster in Hamilton, Bermuda, only three months before his death: 'You were so kind as to say you would play a selection for me, & this note is to beg you to play the Intermezzo of Cavalleria [Rusticana] Sunday morning if I am not trespassing too much on your kindness'; subsequent letters accompany the gift of a photograph (not present) and acknowledge a photograph of the band, 'the men whose inspiring music has given me such great & frequent pleasure in the past two years'. The visiting card is annotated with names of tunes, 'Intermezzo, Gold & Silver, Rosary, Weymouth Chimes ...'.
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