168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Finely bound Memorial Edition each, having inserted a page of original manuscript material in the author's own hand, by arrangement with the estate of Samuel L. Clemens (168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Mark Twain) with manuscr☂ipt notes for his last will and testament; limited to 90 copies.

• Sold as a set of 37 volumes.
• Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens] (American).
• New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929.
• Octavo.
• Signed by Harper & Brothers, no. 25 of 90 copies.
• Bound in three-quarters blue morocco gilt, by STIKEMAN, top edge gilt.

The Memorial Edition, issued in ninety copies, with a leaf of manuscript, was printed at the same time as the Stormfield Edition. This set is finely bound by Stikeman and includes a spectacular manuscript memorandum from the pen of Samuel Clemens encapsulating the concerns of his later years. On a sheet of notepaper of The Grosvenor Fifth Avenue ꦜ& Tenth Street, undated (circa 1909?) he writes a list of tasks:

Go to 44 Wall & finish will

Haircut at 26

Rogers 🧸ask about will & answe🔜r Skinner by telephone

Safe Dep. & leave stock & make list [underscꦫored twice]

Harpers, sign the books & leave MS

go to 44 Wall

He has struck through several items on the list, and written a draft of a letter to his daughter Jean (1880-🔥1909):

Jean Dear, I’ve been to the Haღrpers and told them to send you the Martyrdom of an Empress. Lovingly, Father

On the other side, Clemens has written a listing 💖of his shares, with associated costs, including 100 shares of Borden’s Cond. Milk and Union Pacifi💦c preferred, 200 shares of U.S. Steel preferred, and stocks and bonds in Am. Mec. Cash. There are also notes on his holdings in English Plasmon and the Bandar Log Press.

The list i♏s headed "[Preserv🐲e this.]” and marked below: “Last Will & Testament.”

“The above are in my box in the Prꦜoꦐduce Exchange Safe Deposit.”

“Rogers”༒ is Henry Huttleston Rogers (1840-1909), oil and railroad tycoon and ﷽Clemens’ great friend and benefactor for a decade and a half. Rogers had secured the Clemens copyrights for Livy in the failure of Charles L. Webster and Co. in 1894. Rogers gave Clemens sound financial advice (but Clemens was still prone to enthusiasms and speculations).