Auction Date:2011 Feb 09 @ 19:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Unique autograph manuscript signed, signed in the text, “Mark Twain,” one page, 5.75 x 9, no date, but circa 1908. Headed at the top “4 Little Montana Girl’s Compliment. Underneath, Clemens writes, in full: “She was gazing thoughtfully at a photograph of Mark Twain on a neighbor’s mantelpiece. Presently she said, reverently, ‘We’ve got a Jesus like that at home, only ours has more trimmings.’” In fine condition, with small chip to top edge and a uniform shade of mild toning.
Clemens’ comments were made at a January 1908 Lotos Club dinner in his honor. Clemens announced to those in attendance at the literary club affair that he had become a collector of compliments. ‘Other people collect autographs, dogs, and cats, and I collect compliments. I have brought them along. I have written them down to preserve them, and think that they’re mighty good and exceedingly just,’ the author told the dinner guests. Among the compliments he said he received was this one from this young Montana girl. ‘She was in a room in which there was a large photograph of me. After gazing at it steadily for a time, she said: ‘We’ve got a John the Baptist like that.’ When the diners’ laughter allowed him, Mr. Clemens added: ‘She also said: ‘Only ours has more trimmings.’ I suppose she meant the halo.” Although Clemens used some artistic license and substituted one of Jesus’ followers in his spoken presentation, this sheet, which is numbered “4,” was indeed the fourth anecdote presented that evening, thus most probably Mark Twain’s reading copy.
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