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“Right after breakfast we got up a rousing wood fire in the main hall (it is a cold morning), illuminated the place with a rich glow from all the globes of the newell chandelier, spread a bright rug before the fire, set a circling row of chairs (pink ones and dove-colored) and in the midst a low invalid-table covered with a fanciful cloth and laden with the presents—a pink azalia in lavish bloom from Rosa; a gold inscribed Russia-leather bible form Patrick and Mary; a gold ring (inscribed) from ‘Maggy Cook’; a silver thimble (inscribed with motto and initials) from Lizzie; a rattling mob of Sunday clad dolls from Livy and Annie, and a Noah’s Ark from me, containing 200 wooden animals such as only a human being could create and only God could call by name without referring to the passenger list...”—Samuel Clemens, Letter to Charley Langdon, 1875
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Elevation Drawing of Home in
Hartford, CT
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Family Home in Harford, CT
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At Home with Family
in Hartford, CT
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Olivia Clemens, 1872
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At Home with Family and Dr. and
Mrs. Jackson. Hartford, CT, 1875
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