Joseph Hopkins Twichell and Mark Twain Links
Sites related to Twichell:
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The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is the repository for the bulk of Twichell's papers — scrapbooks, letters, travel notebooks, photo albums and a journal of forty crucial years.
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Twichell's Church, Asylum Hill Congregational Church in Hartford, has a strong interest in its famous first pastor, following his lead in its work in the city today. The church helped fund the biography with a seed grant and a gift to aid with production, as well as providing moral support and access to important archival material. A few of the author's speeches and articles appear on the church's site.
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The Chinese Educational Mission, the first organized program under which Chinese students studied overseas, ran from 1871 to 1882 and was based in Hartford. Twichell was a link to the community and a close friend of the effort's founder, Yung Wing. Bruce Chan, Jacqueline W. Mintz and Dana Young have put together a meticulously researched and well-presented site:
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The Rev. Horace Bushnell was a mentor to Twichell, as well as a religious rebel nearly tried for heresy and a city planner in Hartford, Connecticut.
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The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was another religious innovator, "the most famous man in America," according to Abraham Lincoln, and another strong influence on Twichell. This biography by Debby Applegate won the Pulitzer Prize for 2006.
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The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center not only preserves the home of the best-selling author, a friend of Twichell's, but also has a superb library of original materials concerning all the members of the Nook Farm community.
ttp://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org
Mark Twain sites:
There are many. These are only a few of those that I've found useful.-
The Mark Twain Papers & Project is the repository of the writer's vast published and unpublished materials, has published scholarly editions of many of his works and offers extraordinary access to materials including a searchable database of all known letters to and from Samuel L. Clemens.
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The Mark Twain House and Museum includes the author's vast, brick Victorian mansion in Hartford, and a discreetly shielded yet comprehensive museum nearby, and provides an unparalleled view of the author's life during some of his most productive years.
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The Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College in upstate New York maintains a strong archive and a study center for scholars in the former home of Clemens' sister-in-law, a summer retreat for the Clemens family and a workplace for the writer.
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Barbara Schmidt's site is a wealth of information, quotes, and many primary materials on Mark Twain, such as interviews and articles form the press of the era, at
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The Mark Twain Forum is a place where scholars and non-scholars trade information, quash myths and trade (sometimes strongly worded) opinions on the great American writer.
http://www.twainweb.net/