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3 works about Mark Twain are indexed here.
Works about or by Mark Twain. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
Two poems by Michael Troy, 'An Ode to Pork' and 'Mark Twain', printed on a single sheet in Hillsborough for Hog Day 2007, the town's annual barbecue festival. Apparently self-published, two unnumbered pages, 28 by 22 cm.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Richard D. White's collection of papers from ten families of central and eastern North Carolina, 1751 to 1929, plus miscellaneous items. The Isenhour papers from Anson, Cabarrus and Rowan counties include land papers, a 1796 apprentice bond, accounts and the will and estate of Michael and Barbara Isenhour. Orange County, the university and Trinity College are among the places touched. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.133.
Included because: Catalog heading in the State Archives of NC record: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Papers of John Seelye (1931 to 2015), literary scholar and Penguin Classics editor, who taught American literature at Berkeley, Connecticut, UNC Chapel Hill, Dartmouth and Florida. The 26,100 items (46.7 linear feet) run from 1862 to 2015, mostly 1955 to 2007, in series of correspondence and contracts, academic files, research files, writings and personal papers, with Melville and Mark Twain among his subjects.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
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